Relationship between disease activity indices and colonoscopic findings in patients with colonic inflammatory bowel disease.
Relationship between disease activity indices and colonoscopic findings in patients with colonic inflammatory bowel disease.
P. Gomes,C. du Boulay,C L Smith,G. Holdstock
1986 · DOI: 10.1136/gut.27.1.92
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TLDR
The Crohn's disease activity index, a similar index devised for patients with ulcerative colitis, and other commonly used laboratory indicators of disease activity have been studied in 50 patients with colonic inflammatory bowel disease undergoing routine colonoscopic assessment and compared with the histological extent and activity of disease.