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ARTICLES RELATED TO Inflammatory bowel disease - Forms | | | |  Inflammatory bowel disease - Forms: Encyclopedia II - Inflammatory bowel disease - FormsMain forms of IBD:
Crohn's disease
Ulcerative colitis (UC)
The main difference between the two is the location and nature of the inflammatory changes in the gut. Crohn's can affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract, from mouth to anus (skip lesions), although a majority of the cases start in the terminal ileum. Ulcerative colitis, in contrast, is restricted to the colon, and spares the anus.
Microscopically, ulcerative colitis is restricted to the mucosa (epithelial lining of the gut), ...
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| | | | Inflammatory bowel disease - Forms: Encyclopedia II - Inflammatory bowel disease - Prognosis While IBD can limit quality of life due to pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and other socially unacceptable symptoms, it is rarely fatal on its own. Fatalities due to complications such as toxic megacolon, bowel perforation and surgical complications are also rare.
While patients of IBD do have an increased risk of colorectal cancer this is usually caught much earlier than the general population in routine surveillance of the colon by colonoscopy, ...
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