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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Multimedia

Author: William A Rowe, MD, Consulting Staff, Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Associates
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Updated: Apr 28, 2008

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Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe colitis noted ...
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Media file 1: Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe colitis noted during colonoscopy. The mucosa is grossly denuded, with active bleeding noted. This patient had her colon resected very shortly after this view was obtained.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe colitis noted ...

Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe colitis noted during colonoscopy. The mucosa is grossly denuded, with active bleeding noted. This patient had her colon resected very shortly after this view was obtained.

Inflammatory bowel disease. Stricture in the term...
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Media file 2: Inflammatory bowel disease. Stricture in the terminal ileum noted during colonoscopy. Narrowed segment visible upon intubation of the terminal ileum with the colonoscope. Relatively little active inflammation is present, indicating that this is a cicatrix stricture.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Stricture in the term...

Inflammatory bowel disease. Stricture in the terminal ileum noted during colonoscopy. Narrowed segment visible upon intubation of the terminal ileum with the colonoscope. Relatively little active inflammation is present, indicating that this is a cicatrix stricture.

Inflammatory bowel disease. Enteroenteric fistula...
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Media file 3: Inflammatory bowel disease. Enteroenteric fistula noted on small bowel series of x-ray films. The narrow-appearing segments filled out relatively normally on subsequent films. Note that barium is just starting to enter the cecum in the right lower quadrant (viewer's left), but that barium has also started to enter the sigmoid colon toward the bottom of the picture, thus indicating the presence of a fistula from the small bowel to the sigmoid colon.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Enteroenteric fistula...

Inflammatory bowel disease. Enteroenteric fistula noted on small bowel series of x-ray films. The narrow-appearing segments filled out relatively normally on subsequent films. Note that barium is just starting to enter the cecum in the right lower quadrant (viewer's left), but that barium has also started to enter the sigmoid colon toward the bottom of the picture, thus indicating the presence of a fistula from the small bowel to the sigmoid colon.

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Media file 4: Inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn disease involving the terminal ileum. Note the "string sign" in the right lower quadrant (viewer's left).
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Crohn disease involving the terminal ileum. Note the "string sign" in the right lower quadrant (viewer's left).

Inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammation in the t...
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Media file 5: Inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammation in the terminal ileum noted during colonoscopy. Areas of inflammation, friability, and ulceration in the terminal ileum are consistent with mild-to-moderate Crohn disease.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Inflammation in the terminal ileum noted during colonoscopy. Areas of inflammation, friability, and ulceration in the terminal ileum are consistent with mild-to-moderate Crohn disease.

Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe advanced pyode...
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Media file 6: Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe advanced pyoderma gangrenosum of the medial aspect of the left ankle.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe advanced pyode...

Inflammatory bowel disease. Severe advanced pyoderma gangrenosum of the medial aspect of the left ankle.

Inflammatory bowel disease. Early pyoderma gangre...
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Media file 7: Inflammatory bowel disease. Early pyoderma gangrenosum, before skin breakdown. Medial aspect of the right ankle. Same day and same patient as in Media file 6.
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Inflammatory bowel disease. Early pyoderma gangre...

Inflammatory bowel disease. Early pyoderma gangrenosum, before skin breakdown. Medial aspect of the right ankle. Same day and same patient as in Media file 6.

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Keywords

inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, Crohn disease, Crohn's disease, terminal ileitis, granulomatous enteritis, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal tract disease, GI tract disease, gastrointestinal disease, GI disease, Clostridium difficile,

irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, irritable bowel disease, pyoderma gangrenosum, bloody diarrhea, inflamed colon, colonoscopy, proctocolectomy, continent ileostomy, Koch pouch, colonic disease, ileoanal anastomosis, segmental colon resection, colorectal cancer, Crohn colitis, intestinal obstruction, intestinal strictures, scarred strictures, cicatrix strictures, colonic strictures, fistulae, perianal disease, toxic megacolon, colon cancer,pancolitis, perianalabscesses, loss of colonic haustrae, sigmoidoscopy, proctitis

colectomy, occult blood loss, growth retardation, gastric Crohn disease, duodenal Crohn disease, medication-induced arthropathies, axial arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, sacroiliitis, episcleritis, iritis, uveitis, erythema nodosum, herpetic lesions, calcium oxalate stones, hydronephrosis, sclerosing cholangitis, cholangiocarcinoma, cirrhosis, gallstones, iron deficiency anemia, anemia of chronic disease, strokes, retinal thrombi, pulmonary emboli

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