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The Old Endoscopy Quiz (and Answer) of the Month October 2004

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Question:
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This young man had suffered from a sligth diarrhea and rightsided abdominal pain for some months. Colonoscopy turned out to be quite difficult and it was not easy to se the right side of the large bowel. However, this is the finding in the distal colon, and this finding is quite diagnostic. So what disease does this young man have?
Answer:
Crohns disease mainly affecting the ileocaecal valve and the terminal ileum.These images show small aphthous lesions in the colon. After some time it was possible to examine the ileocaecal valve and the terminal ileum:
Correct answers and comments were emailed by
AISSAOUI LOTFI, ARAR, SAUDIA
Christian Nielsen, Uppsala, Sweden
dongjun fan, taiyuan, China
Zahreddine Radwan, Beirut, Lebanon
PARABOLI SILVA , Marcio Luiz M.D., SAO JOSE DO RIO PRETO-SP-, BRAZIL
Çetin Karaca, Ýstanbul, Turkey
Bo Westman, Stockholm, Sweden
ARVANITI VASSILIKI, PIREAS, GREECE
Ulrike Hurler, Heidenheim, Germany
Klaudia J. Niepsuj, Bytom, Poland
Salvatore Della Ducata, Gallipoli, Italy
Ahmed Raoaf, Mansoura, Egypt
HAISSAM NOURALLAH, DUBAI, UAE
Dr. Virendra Parikh, Fort Wayne, USA
Björn Lindqvist, Malmoe, Sweden
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