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Inflammatory bowel disease

Prevalence
Clinical features
Differential Diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Differential diagnosis

The commonest causes of a first prolonged attack of colitis are c
  • inflammatory bowel disease
  • infectious colitis
  • non-specific colitis   
Alternatives to inflammatory bowel disease include d
  • bacterial and amoebic colitis
  • pseudomembranous colitis
  • diverticular disease
  • ischaemic colitis
  • bowel cancer
  • radiation colitis
  • ileocaecal TB

Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   CM   Ball
Reviewer   L   Friedman
CAT Writers   D   Ford , CM   Ball