Crohn's Disease Current Concepts
Presenting recent advances related to inflammatory bowel disease as well as imaging of the intestine through CT, MR Enterography, diffusion and perfusion imaging, tissue harmonic imaging, capsule endoscopy and push enteroscopy amongst others, Crohn’s Dise
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Crohn’s Disease Current Concepts
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Crohn’s Disease
Arumugam Rajesh • Rakesh Sinha Editors
Crohn’s Disease Current Concepts
Editors Arumugam Rajesh University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester, UK
Rakesh Sinha Department of Radiology Warwick Hospital Warwick, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-01912-3 ISBN 978-3-319-01913-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01913-0 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Dedicated with love to my parents Suresh and Saraswati Sinha Rakesh Sinha Dedicated with love to my parents, R. A. Mudaliar and Suseela Arumugam My wife and daughters Priya, Nethra and Unnathi And In memory of my friend Dr. Madhusudanan Sriperumbudur Arumugam Rajesh
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Foreword
The Times They Are A-Changin’ – Bob Dylan
Medical historians [1–3] have suggested that the initial description of Crohn’s disease may have dated back to Morgagni [4]. Despite new knowledge from immunology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, and other disciplines, this disease ranks as one of the major clinical enigmas of medicine, challenging all scientific disciplines. It is classified medically as an autoimmune disorder, bu
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