Abstract
Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease likely due to an autoimmune process. In North America, the prevalence of this disease is 1 per 1000, with a bimodal distribution of age of onset in the second and sixth decade of life.
The gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms include:
Intermittent diarrhea mixed with blood and mucous, more than ten episodes per day in severe disease
Intermittent rectal bleeding
Tenesmus
Abdominal cramping
The most common clinical signs and findings are:
Initially limited to rectum/distal colon in 33 %, extending proximally to the left colon in 33 %, pancolitis in the remaining 33 %
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Selsky, N. (2013). Ulcerative Colitis: Gastrointestinal Features. In: Wu, G., Selsky, N., Grant-Kels, J. (eds) Atlas of Dermatological Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6191-3_49
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