Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of non-specific chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases of unknown cause. Non-specific ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohns disease (CD) are common, but there are other types of IBD, such as untyped colitis, collagenous, and lymphocolitis. Ulcerative colitis, also known as non-specific ulcerative colitis, is a chronic, diffuse inflammation that is confined to the colonic mucosa and spreads continuously and symmetrically from the rectum to the proximal section. The lesions are inflammation and ulcers. Crohn's disease can affect all parts of the gastrointestinal tract and presents with chronic granulomatous inflammation, with the terminal ileum and its adjacent colon most commonly affected. The lesions were mostly segmental and asymmetric, and the rectum was rarely involved.

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