Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mamula, Petar (Editor), Markowitz, Jonathan E. (Editor), Baldassano, Robert N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are the most common and most significant chronic disorders in Pediatric Gastroenterology. The onset of Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis in the first two decades of life presents a number of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that are unique to pedia...