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Segmental colitis associated with diverticular disease and other IBD look-alikes.

Harpaz N, Sachar DB

Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. noam.harpaz@mssm.edu

Segmental colitis associated with diverticular disease is an inflammatory disorder that bears close clinical and histopathologic similarities to idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease. Comparison with other inflammatory bowel disease-like disorders, such as blind-ended pouches in ulcerative colitis, chronic granulomatous appendicitis, and delayed-surgery appendicitis, affords intriguing analogies and potential clues to its pathogenesis.

Published 3 August 2006 in J Clin Gastroenterol, 40(7): S132-5.
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