regional enteritis


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regional enteritis

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(Pathology) another name for Crohn's disease
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Noun1.regional enteritis - a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the ileum producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss
colitis, inflammatory bowel disease - inflammation of the colon
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It was first described by Burrill Bernard Crohn and two colleagues, Leon Ginzburg and Gordon Oppenheimer, in 1932 and named regional enteritis or terminal ileitis (1).
Then there's Crohn's disease, regional enteritis or Johne's disease, was also infamously named after American physician Bernard Crohn.
Carcinosarcoma of the ileum in regional enteritis. Hum Pathol 1984;15(4):385-7.
when some of the cells in the undeveloped intestinal canal, that have broad differentiation characteristics, develop into a gastric epithelium at an incorrect level [5]; or lastly could be due to a regeneration error following the eradication of preexisting mucosa as seen in cases of regional enteritis and chronic tuberculous ulcer of the colon [6, 7].

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