Thursday, May 26, 2016

Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's disease and rectal involvement

Greetings everyone!

Here's a short post on how to remember that rectum is involved in Ulcerative Colitis (And spared in Crohn's disease.)

Mnemonic: ulCER ends with "Rec" for RECtum



That's all!


-IkaN

Updated on 2nd June, 2016: 
So I read this in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, it states, “Unlike Ulcerative colitis, which almost always involves the rectum, the rectum is often spared in Crohn's disease.”
Just to clarify that yes, Crohns may involve any part of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus, including the rectum.

5 comments:

  1. hi Ikan.
    I've difficulty in remembering the morphological features in Pathology. can u help me out with this?

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  2. whosoever made this site is hell awesome :)

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  3. Hi! Can you please make a mnemonic to compare and differentiate crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis? I am finding it difficult:(

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