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Inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Twenty-five percent of the patients with inflammatory bowel disease develop symptoms within the first two decades of life. The approach to children with these chronic illnesses involves an understanding of the medical, nutritional, and psychological issues of maturing children and adolescents. Children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis have different clinical presentations than adult patients. The physician must decide when to perform diagnostic procedures and which management options will be successful.