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CROHN'S DISEASE IN SINGAPORE
Author(s) -
Lee SweeKok
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb93145.x
Subject(s) - disease , crohn's disease , medicine , intensive care medicine
Six cases of Crohn's disease are reported from Singapore. Of these patients, four are Chinese, one is a Sikh and one Irish. Crohn's disease, which is relatively common in Caucasians, is extremely rare in people of Mongoloid stock. Apart from a strong racial bias, there is a definite predisposition to the disease. Furthermore, in Singapore where tuberculosis is still a problem, the rarity of Crohn's disease in the population excludes the tubercle bacillus as a likely cause of the latter disease. The recurrence of Crohn's disease, which sometimes poses a problem after surgical treatment, is not encountered in the present series.