Crohn's Disease: Etiology, Complications, Assessment, Therapy, and Management

It has been over 100 years since the Scottish surgeon Sir T. Kennedy Dalziel described several cases of “chronic interstitial enteritis” resulting in diarrhea, abdominal pain, and intestinal obstruction, and 75 years since Drs Burrill B. Crohn, Leon Ginzburg, and Gordon Oppenheimer from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published their case series of “terminal ileitis” in the Journal of the Ame rican Medical Association. What we now call “Crohn's disease” has evolved from a rare medical curiosity to an all-too-common diagnosis in not only North America and Europe but also the rest of the world.
Source: Gastroenterology Clinics of North America - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research