Karel Geboes • Sonia Nemolato
Maria Leo • Gavino Faa
Editors

2014

A Practical Approach to Colon Biopsy
Interpretation

Inflammatory bowel disease is a group of chronic inflammatory disorders primarily involving the digestive tract and particularly the colon. These diseases have been reported from all over the world. They affect children and adults. Inflammatory bowel diseases must be differentiated from other conditions such as infectious colitis and microscopic colitis because treatment is different. Histopathology plays a major role in the differential diagnostic process. Because of the widespread use of colonoscopy, the number of biopsies arriving in the laboratories of pathology is increasing. At present, the diagnosis of colitis is therefore a routine task of pathologists and a challenge.