ReviewIntestinal research2021
Intestinal tuberculosis or Crohn's disease: a review of the diagnostic models designed to differentiate between these two gastrointestinal diseases.
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- Ileal tuberculosis presenting with severe unexplained anemia and unusual pseudo-tumoral imaging features: A case report.Radiology case reports · 2026Article
- Urinary lipoarabinomannan for gastrointestinal tuberculosis: Another tool in the kit.Indian journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology · 2026Article
- The Overlap Between Crohn's Disease and Intestinal Tuberculosis: A Never-Ending Story.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Complex Disseminated Tuberculosis with Oral and Gastrointestinal Involvement: Histopathologic and Clinical Insights.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pediatric Crohn's Disease in Ethiopia: A Diagnostic Challenge in a High Tuberculosis Prevalence Setting.Cureus · 2025Article
- Management of Crohn's disease in Taiwan: consensus guideline of the Taiwan Society of Inflammatory Bowel Disease updated in 2023.Intestinal research · 2024Article
- A novel multidisciplinary machine learning approach based on clinical, imaging, colonoscopy, and pathology features for distinguishing intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2024Article
- Cryptogenic Multifocal Ulcerating Stenosing Enteropathy: A Rare Case of Small Bowel Stenosis.The American journal of case reports · 2024Article
- Infectious complications in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Asia: the results of a multinational web-based survey in the 8th Asian Organization for Crohn's and Colitis meeting.Intestinal research · 2023Article
- Interferon-gamma release assay has poor diagnostic accuracy in differentiating intestinal tuberculosis from Crohn's disease in tuberculosis endemic areas.Intestinal research · 2023Article
- Clinical Analysis of Intestinal Tuberculosis: A Retrospective Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Intestinal tuberculosis can masquerade as Crohn's disease: A teachable moment.SAGE open medical case reports · 2023Article
- Clinical Characteristics of Korean Patients with Elderly-Onset Crohn's Disease: Results from the Prospective CONNECT Study.Gut and liver · 2022Article
- Natural history of inflammatory bowel disease: a comparison between the East and the West.Intestinal research · 2022Review
- Inflammatory bowel disease in Korea: epidemiology and pathophysiology.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2022Review
- [Latent and Active Tuberculosis Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease].The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2022Review
- Microbial changes in stool, saliva, serum, and urine before and after anti-TNF-α therapy in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Fecal Calprotectin as a Surrogate Marker for Mucosal Healing After Initiating the Therapeutic Anti-Tubercular Trial.Clinical endoscopy · 2022Article
- Deep learningWorld journal of gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Development and validation of a new algorithm model for differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and intestinal tuberculosis: a combination of laboratory, imaging and endoscopic characteristics.BMC gastroenterology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Differentiating Crohn's disease (CD) from intestinal tuberculosis (ITB) is a diagnostic dilemma, particularly in regions where ITB is prevalent and CD incidence is increasing, because both diseases can present quite similarly, and diagnostic tests to identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis in tissue samples have rather poor sensitivity. Studies that were conducted to determine the factors that differentiate CD from ITB identified some significant characteristics, but none of those characteristics are exclusive to either ITB or CD. Many diagnostic models or scoring systems that use one to several diagnostic parameters have been proposed to help distinguish these two intestinal diseases. Early models consisted of parameters common to routine clinical practice, such as clinical features, and endoscopic and pathologic findings. The later models also include more advanced diagnostic parameters like high-resolution imaging and serological testing. However, the number and types of parameters differ among diagnostic models, and the systems used to calculate scoring also vary from model to model. Enhanced awareness and understanding of the currently available diagnostic models will help physicians determine which model(s) is/are most suitable for differentiating CD from ITB in their clinical practice.
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