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Natural history and long-term clinical course of Crohn's disease.
World journal of gastroenterology - 7 Jan 2014
Freeman Hugh James
Abstract excerpt
Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory disease process involving different sites in the gastrointestinal tract. Occasionally, so-called metastatic disease occurs in extra-intestinal sites. Granulomatous inflammation may be detected in endoscopic biopsies or resected tissues. Genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors appear to play a role. Multiple susceptibility genes have been described in both familial...
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