Tag: Ulcerative colitis

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Crohn’s Versus Ulcerative Colitis

    Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Crohn’s Versus Ulcerative Colitis

    The best way to appreciate and remember the differences between Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, both inflammatory bowel diseases, is to juxtapose them and compare them in a pairwise fashion: Transmural vs. Mucosal Only Transmural: This is the most important distinguishing feature of Crohn’s disease. The transmural nature of the disease is what leads to…