Crohns Disease Diagnosis
- Crohn's Disease
- What Is It? & Symptoms
- Diagnosis & Expected Duration
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Diagnosis
It may require months for your doctor to diagnose Crohn's disease with certainty. Your doctor will look for evidence of intestinal inflammation and try to distinguish it from other causes of intestinal problems, such as infection or ulcerative colitis, a related disease that also causes intestinal inflammation. If you have Crohn's disease, your symptoms and the results of various tests will fit a pattern over time that is best explained by this condition.
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