Burrill Bernard Crohn

American gastroenterologist

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description of Crohn disease

  • small intestine
    In Crohn disease

    …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 a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and has…

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