OVERLAP IN SPECTRUM OF NONSPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL-DISEASE - COLITIS INDETERMINATE
OVERLAP IN SPECTRUM OF NONSPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL-DISEASE - COLITIS INDETERMINATE
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DOI:
10.1136/jcp.31.6.567
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
PRICE, AB
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PRICE, AB
It is stated that 10-20% of cases of non-specific inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] cannot be classified. Thirty such cases, designated colitis indeterminate at the time of colectomy were identified. The histopathological features of the surgical specimens and any available biopsy specimens were studied. In nearly all the cases urgent surgery was required and the features of incipient or established fulminating disease were present. The pathology of these cases of Crohn''s disease and ulcerative colitis overlapped, and differentiating features were scant or unreliable. Accepted criteria of Crohn''s disease-namely, fissuring ulceration, transmural inflammation and a maintained goblet-cell population-were found in cases subsequently proved to be ulcerative colitis. Disease activity greatly affected the evaluation of morphological features. Many of the difficulties were resolved when biopsy material obtained during a quiescent phase was examined. These specimens gave a dynamic perspective of the disease process, often more valuable than the static, non-specific of acute disease seen in the surgical specimens. Cases of colitis indeterminate form a small but distinctive group in the spectrum of IBD which is characterized by a common pattern of pathology that presents a diagnostic dilemma.