Crohn desease

The article discusses current situation with colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases--ulcerative colitis and Crohn's desease. It has presented modern strategies of prevention colorectal cancer in this pathology and own data about the efficacy chemoprevention of cancer with 5-ASA.

Crohn's disease in the proximal region of the digestive tract is uncommon. Better diagnostically procedures and more careful histologic examination has led to a higher detection of proximal Crohn's disease. The diagnosis is based on symptoms, endoscopy with serial sections, or double contrast radiography. The most common histologic finding for this diagnosis are granulomas in the mucosa in Helicobacter pylori-negative patients, but the granulomas are not always frequently detected. Endoscopic lesions in the proximal regions look like the lesions that could be found in the distal regions...