Leśniowski, Antoni

Polish surgeon

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description of Crohn disease

  • small intestine
    In Crohn disease

    …in 1904 by Polish surgeon Antoni Leśniowski. It was later named for American gastroenterologist Burrill Bernard Crohn, who in 1932, in collaboration with fellow physicians Leon Ginzburg and Gordon D. Oppenheimer, published a thorough description of a then-unknown intestinal disorder they called regional ileitis. Today, Crohn disease is characterized as…

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