Difference between revisions of "Diverticular disease"

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Features:<ref name=pmid19581849>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mulhall | first1 = AM. | last2 = Mahid | first2 = SS. | last3 = Petras | first3 = RE. | last4 = Galandiuk | first4 = S. | title = Diverticular disease associated with inflammatory bowel disease-like colitis: a systematic review. | journal = Dis Colon Rectum | volume = 52 | issue = 6 | pages = 1072-9 | month = Jun | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819ef79a | PMID = 19581849 }}</ref>
Features:<ref name=pmid19581849>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mulhall | first1 = AM. | last2 = Mahid | first2 = SS. | last3 = Petras | first3 = RE. | last4 = Galandiuk | first4 = S. | title = Diverticular disease associated with inflammatory bowel disease-like colitis: a systematic review. | journal = Dis Colon Rectum | volume = 52 | issue = 6 | pages = 1072-9 | month = Jun | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/DCR.0b013e31819ef79a | PMID = 19581849 }}</ref>
*Rare.
*Rare.
*Definitions vary somewhat - one is: ''IBD-like inflammation restricted to areas with diverticular disease''.
*Definitions vary somewhat - one is: ''[[IBD]]-like inflammation restricted to areas with diverticular disease''.
*Considerable overlap with IBD histologically (no definite histologic findings).
*Considerable overlap with IBD histologically - no definite histologic findings.
*Rectal biopsy may be used to differentiate from [[ulcerative colitis]].
*Rectal biopsy may be used to differentiate from [[ulcerative colitis]].


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*[[Colon]].
*[[Colon]].
*[[Gastrointestinal pathology]].
*[[Gastrointestinal pathology]].
*[[Inflammatory bowel disease]] (IBD).


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