Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

by Stephen B. Hanauer and P. Rutgeerts

Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease remain a great therapeutic challenge to the medical community. In recent years knowledge about the pathogenesis of these diseases has progressed rapidly but the cause of the diseases remains completely unknown. It has become clear that dysregulation of the mucosal immune system is the basis for the chronic evolution of the diseases in a genetically susceptible population. Exciting new therapeutic approaches have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792387503
• ISBN13: 9780792387503
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"