Chronic relapsing and remitting inflammatory disease of the bowel causing recurrent episodes of diarrhea that is often bloody and accompanied by abdominal pain, incontinence, fever, ...
Frequent diarrhea, may be bloody or include mucus
Frequent, small bowel movements, associated with tenesmus, colicky abdominal pain, urgency, and fecal incontinence
Onset is gradual and...
Regular surveillance colonoscopy in patients with prolonged (8 to 10 years) active disease (2)
Initiate annual surveillance immediately in patien...
K51.90 Ulcerative colitis, unspecified, without complications
K51.919 Ulcerative colitis, unspecified with unspecified complications
K51.80 Other ulcerative colitis without complications
K51.0...
Diffuse, uninterrupted colonic mucosal inflammation
Hallmark symptom is bloody diarrhea.
Annual or biannual surveillance colonoscopy after 8 to 10 years of colitis due to increased risk ...
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Ulcerative colitis. A section of the colonic mucosa from a patient with active ulcerative colitis shows purulent exudate on the surface, ulceration (center), diffuse inflammation superficial to the muscularis mucosae, and numerous crypt abscesses (arrows).
Ulcerative colitis. A section of the colonic mucosa from a patient with active ulcerative colitis shows purulent exudate on the surface, u...
<bold>FIGURE 68.2</bold> (<italic>A</bold>) Loss of normal vascular pattern (colonoscopic photo) (<italic>B</bold>) Contact bleeding (<italic>C</bold>) Granularity (<italic>D</bold>) Ulceration and friability (<italic>E</bold>) Colonic stricture.
<bold>FIGURE 68.2</bold> (<italic>A</bold>) Loss of normal vascular pattern (colonoscopic photo) (<italic>B...
<bold><italic>Figure 15-23</bold> The colon in chronic ulcerative colitis.</bold> Polypoid islands of intact mucosa are surrounded by mucosal ulcers.
<bold><italic>Figure 15-23</bold> The colon in chronic ulcerative colitis.</bold> Polypoid islands of intact mucos...