Much understanding of IBD pathology is based on personal experience, anecdotal observations and small case studies. A paper on the histopathology of IBD provides an exhaustive literature review, and attempts to delineate guidelines for pathologists to use by providing evidence for consensus statements developed by a European contingent of gastrointestinal pathologists and clinicians.
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Odze, R. Role of the pathologist in the diagnosis and management of IBD. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 10, 625–626 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2013.198
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