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Digestive System Diseases > Gastrointestinal Diseases > Gastroenteritis > Inflammatory Bowel Diseases > Crohn Disease
Digestive System Diseases > Gastrointestinal Diseases > Intestinal Diseases > Inflammatory Bowel Diseases > Crohn Disease

Preferred term

Crohn Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Crohn's Disease
  • Crohns Disease
  • Crohn's Enteritis
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease 1
  • Regional Enteritis

Note

  • coord IM with ILEITIS (IM) or COLITIS (IM) only if site is particularly discussed; usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE

Scope note

  • A chronic transmural inflammation that may involve any part of the DIGESTIVE TRACT from MOUTH to ANUS, mostly found in the ILEUM, the CECUM, and the COLON. In Crohn disease, the inflammation, extending through the intestinal wall from the MUCOSA to the serosa, is characteristically asymmetric and segmental. Epithelioid GRANULOMAS may be seen in some patients.

History note

  • 80; was ENTERITIS, REGIONAL 1965-79, was ILEITIS, REGIONAL 1963-64

In other languages

  • Crohnin tauti

    Finnish

  • Chron
  • Crohn
  • enteritis granulomatosa
  • enteritis regionalis
  • granulomatoottinen enteriitti
  • granulomatoottinen suolitulehdus
  • morbus Crohn
  • morbus Crohn non specificatus
  • määrittämätön Crohnin tauti
  • regionaalinen enteriitti
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön regionaalinen enteriitti
  • terminaalinen ileiitti
  • Crohns sjukdom

    Swedish

  • Granulomatös enterit
  • Ileitis terminalis
  • Ileokolit
  • Regional enterit
  • Regional ileit
  • Terminal ileit

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003424

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