Inflammatory Bowel Disease

CLINICAL NUTRITION 3(2+1)
Lesson 12: Disease of the small and large intestine

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

The term inflammatory bowel disease is applied to three conditions which have similar symptoms but are clinically different.

In the first two conditions there are mucosal tissue lesions, in the third there may be repeated removal of the affected sections of the intestine - all three leading to typical, similar symptoms.

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