Colitis

- The Normal Biopsy: Mucosa And Submucosa

- The Endoscopic Biopsy

- Elementary Lesions Of Inflammation

- Dysplasia

- Infections

- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

- Treatment Related Diseases

- Ischemic Colitis

- Diverticular Disease-Associated Colitis

- Eosinophilic Colitis

- Microscopic Colitis

- Drug-Induced Colitis

- Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome

- The Role Of Biopsies In The Treatment Of Colitis: Scoring Of Disease Activity

Karel Geboes, MD, PhD, AGAF

Board Certificate in internal medicine (1975) and anatomic pathology (1982). Professor emeritus of the University of Leuven and former head of the Gastrointestinal pathology unit of the department of pathology, University Hospital KULeuven. Member of the International Organization of Inflammatory bowel diseases and of the Consensus working party for the diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel disease of ESP and ECCO. Major research interests: inflammatory bowel diseases and gastrointestinal cancer. Author or co-author of more than 500 articles in international journals.

Some key references are:

Geboes K, Vantrappen G. The value of colonoscopy in the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. Gastrointest Endosc 1975; 22: 18-23

Rutgeerts P, Geboes K, Vantrappen G, Kerremans R, Coenegrachts JL, Coremans G. Natural history of recurrent Crohn's disease at the ileocolonic anastomosis after curative surgery. Gut 1984; 25: 665-672

Geboes K, Riddell R, Öst Ä, Jensfelt B, Persson T, Löfberg R. A reproducible grading scale for histological assessment of inflammation in ulcerative colitis. Gut 2000; 47: 404-9

Geboes K, Dalle I. Influence of treatment on morphological features of mucosal inflammation. Gut 2002; 50: Suppl 3:III37-42