Open AccessCrohn’s disease: is there any link between anal and luminal phenotypes?
Author(s) -
Timothée Wallenhorst,
Charlène Brochard,
JeanFrançois Bretagne,
Guillaume Bouguen,
Laurent Siproudhis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of colorectal disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.831
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1432-1262
pISSN - 0179-1958
DOI - 10.1007/s00384-015-2390-8
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatology , anal fistula , gastroenterology , crohn's disease , phenotype , lesion , fistula , clinical phenotype , disease , anus , pathology , surgery , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Perianal Crohn's disease (CD) encompasses a variety of lesion similar to luminal disease, which are usually not distinctly assessed. Links between luminal and perianal CD phenotype remains therefore underreported, and we aimed to describe both luminal and perianal phenotype and their relationships.
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