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Endoscopy in Crohn's Disease Overview
Unfortunately, there is no simple lab test that allows a definitive diagnosis of Crohn's disease. If you have symptoms suggesting inflammatory bowel disease, your primary care provider or gastroenterologist will probably recommend endoscopy (“scope”).
Endoscopy is a test in which a thin tube with a light and a tiny camera at the end is inserted into your digestive tract. The camera transmits pictures back to a video monitor, where they are magnified so your doctor can see exactly what the inside of your digestive tract looks like. The endoscope shows ulcers, bleeding, and other signs of Crohn's disease and indicates the location and extent of the disease within the digestive tract.
With endoscopy, your doctor can tell whether you have Cro...
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Crohn disease is an idiopathic, chronic, transmural inflammatory process of the bowel that often leads to fibrosis and obstructive symptoms, which can affect any part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract from the mouth to the anus.
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