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1948-5190 (online) |
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| Category |
Gastroenterology & Hepatology |
| Manuscript Type |
Observational Study |
| Article Title |
All ileo-cecal ulcers are not Crohn’s: Changing perspectives of symptomatic ileocecal ulcers
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| Manuscript Source |
Invited Manuscript |
| All Author List |
Jay Toshniwal, Romesh Chawlani, Amit Thawrani, Rajesh Sharma, Anil Arora, Hardik L Kotecha, Mohan Goyal, Vijendra Kirnake, Pankaj Jain, Pankaj Tyagi, Naresh Bansal, Munish Sachdeva, Piyush Ranjan, Mandhir Kumar, Praveen Sharma, Vikas Singla, Rinkesh Bansal, Vineet Shah, Sunita Bhalla and Ashish Kumar |
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| Corresponding Author |
Dr. Jay Toshniwal, MBBS, MD, DNB, Department of Gastroenterology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi 110060, India. drjaytoshniwal@yahoo.com |
| Key Words |
Ileocecal; Crohn’s disease; Diffuse large B-cell non-hodgkin’s lymphoma |
| Core Tip |
This is one of the largest studies till date defining etiology, endoscopic and histological features of ileocecal (I/C) ulcers. Non-specific ileocecal ulcers are most common ulcers seen in ileo-cecal region. And if all infections are clubbed together then infection is the the most common (> 40%) cause of ulcerations of the IC region. On the contrary Crohn’s disease (CD) account for only 13% cases as a cause of ileo-cecal ulcers. So all symptomatic patients with I/C ulcers on colonoscopy are not CD. Also, we conclude that with increasing use of Colonoscope in diagnosis and treatment, majority of the patients with ileo-cecal ulcers can be managed conservatively without surgery. |
| Publish Date |
2017-07-05 08:07 |
| Citation |
Toshniwal J, Chawlani R, Thawrani A, Sharma R, Arora A, Kotecha HL, Goyal M, Kirnake V, Jain P, Tyagi P, Bansal N, Sachdeva M, Ranjan P, Kumar M, Sharma P, Singla V, Bansal R, Shah V, Bhalla S, Kumar A. All ileo-cecal ulcers are not Crohn’s: Changing perspectives of symptomatic ileocecal ulcers. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2017; 9(7): 327-333 |
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http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5190/full/v9/i7/327.htm |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.4253/wjge.v9.i7.327 |
