Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

New pathological concepts.- 1. Pathologic aspects of diagnosis, pathogenesis, and etiology of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.- 2. Epithelioid granuloma and related histologic features which may differentiate Crohn’s disease from ulcerative colitis in rectal biopsies.- 3. Dysplasia and carcinoma in inflammatory bowel disease.- 4. Athymic nude mice in studies of Crohn’s disease.- Etiology.- 5. Inflammatory bowel disease — The search for an etiology.- 6. Idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): a review of immuno-logical mechanisms.- 7. Ulcerative colitis: an autoimmune disease?.- 8. Bacterial etiology of inflammatory bowel disease.- 9. Cytotoxic inducers in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.- 10. Animal models for human inflammatory bowel diseases.- Pathogenesis.- 11. Newer concepts of IBD epidemiology.- 12. Epidemiology of inflammatory bowel disease. State of the art and etiologic inferences.- 13. Genetics and inflammatory bowel disease.- 14. Possible role of prostanoids as mediators in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.- 15. Prostaglandins and the mode of action of sulphasalazine in ulcerative colitis: two-opposing viewpoints.- 16. Pathogenesis of diarrhea in inflammatory bowel disease.- 17. Psychiatric illness and inflammatory bowel disease.- Management.- 18. Introduction.- 19. Colonoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease.- 20. Drug therapy of inflammatory bowel disease.- 21. Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in inflammatory bowel disease.- 22. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in children.- 23. Surgical management.- New directions for future research.- 24. Inflammatory bowel disease — New directions for future research.- 25. New directions for medical research in inflammatory bowel disease.- 26. New directions for futureresearch: surgical/clinical.