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*It is important to differentiate UC and CD as the management is different. | *It is important to differentiate UC and CD as the management is different. | ||
*UC patients get pouches... CD patients do not. | *UC patients get pouches... CD patients do not. | ||
**It is said that "... nothing like a pouch to bring out Crohn's disease".<ref>URL: [http://www.gihealthfoundation.org/library/ppts/postcolectomypatient.pdf http://www.gihealthfoundation.org/library/ppts/postcolectomypatient.pdf]. 3 March 2011.</ref> | |||
===General clinical differential diagnosis=== | |||
*Crohn's disease. | |||
*Ulcerative colitis. | |||
*Infective colitis/enteritis. | |||
*Ischemic colitis/enteritis. | |||
*Radiation colitis. | |||
Others: | |||
*[[Irritable bowel syndrome]]. | |||
==Epidemiology== | ==Epidemiology== | ||