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 Description of disease:
 Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease described by Antoni Lesniewski in 1904 and characterized in 1932 by Bernard Crohn.
It is a chronic, recurrent inflammation of gastrointestinal system which can affect the whole intestinal tract but the most common site for Crohn's disease are the last part of the small bowel and the colon.
There are many unknown connected with this disease, causes and effective treatment are yet to be discovered.
Symptoms:
diarrhoea
fatigue and exhaustion
fever
intestine obstruction
pain and itchiness around the anus
pain in the right side of the hypogastrium
Research:
Biopsy of the mucosa
Colonoscopy
Computed tomography
Contrast X-ray fluoroscopy
Gastroduodenoscopy
Gastrointestinal passage
Magnetic resonance
USG of the abdominal cavity
Doctors :
Gastroenterologist
Internist or Doctor of internal medicine
Proctologist
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2008-04-08 13:21:39
Bibliography:
http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdgs16.htm
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