Severe Active Crohn's Disease
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 June 1, 2005.
About one-third of all Crohn's disease cases involve only the small bowel,...
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