Regional Ileitis

Regional Ileitis (Crohn's Disease)

Regional Entero-Colitis (Crohn's Disease) *Paper read at the General Conference of the Christian Medical Association of India held at Miraj in December 1940. †See editorial in this number.

as regional ileitis, ileitis-terminalis, regional enteritis, non-specific granuloma, inflammatory tumour of the small intestine, chronic cicatrizing enteritis, localized hypertrophic enteritis, localized chronic ulcerative ileitis, and ' Crohn's disease \ It is surprising to note that so far the disease has not been mentioned in Indian medical literature, and no reference has been made to such ...

Crohn's Disease

Chronic granuloma of the small intestine was first described by Coombe and Saunders in I813. One hundred years later, Dalziel recognized a condition of chronic interstitial enteritis which was not tuberculous in origin. Regional ileitis, however, did not really come into prominence until 1932, when Crohn, Ginzburg, and Oppenheimer gave it this name, and it is now more popularly known as Crohn's...

Histology of Crohn's Syndrome.

The term 'Crohn's syndrome' is preferred to that of Crohn's disease as this is a condition of unknown, single, or possibly multiple aetiology. There are a large number of synonyms, including terminal ileitis, regional ileitis, regional or segmented colitis. It affects ileum or colon, alone or in combination. The disease manifests itself by well-demarcated areas of thickened bowel, stenosis, oft...

The place of surgery in Crohn's disease.

In the early years after the recognition of regional enteritis by Crohn and his colleagues1, surgical treatment was considered curative and excision of the affected bowel the ideal treatment. During the next 10 years the high recurrence rate after surgery worried physicians and disillusioned surgeons and so Crohn's disease came to be regarded as something of a surgical enigma2. The surgeon enco...