Colitis in Childhood

摘要: The differential diagnosis of colitis in pediatrics encompasses numerous entities. Many are infectious, acute onset, follow a self-limited course, and diagnosed with combination clinical features microbiologic cultures. These rarely seen by the pathologist unless complications develop or they setting immunodeficiency. Endoscopic biopsy surgical specimens obtained most frequently those entities without an identifiable pathogen which prolonged when possibility chronic inflammatory bowel disease is raised course therapy management complications. evaluation these settings essential to confirm presence disorder, establish diagnosis, distinguish acute, selflimited from processes, determine extent disease, assess efficacy therapy.