Inflammatory Bowel Disease Children
Article updated and reviewed by Christian D. Stone, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine on May 19, 2005.
Inflammatory bowel disease is a name given to a group of
Most often, doctors divide IBD into two groups:
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