This site is targeted at medical and radiology professionals, contains user contributed content, and material that may be confusing to a lay audience. Use of this site implies acceptance of our Terms of Use.

Inflammatory bowel disease

Dr Frank Gaillard et al.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), although occasionally used to encompass a variety of infective and purely inflammatory bowel conditions, usually refers to two idopathic conditions

Indeterminate colitis is added to the list, and represents approximately 6% of inflammatory bowel disease cases ². It has features both on imaging and histologically which overlap both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

For specifics regarding these entities please refer to their separate articles. Other than sharing a common lack of understanding as to their underlying aetiologies, they are separate entities with little overlap.