title: Pleurisy during the course of ulcerative colitis.
abstract: Extracolonic manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease have attracted considerable attention. We present two young men with ulcerative colitis who also developed pleurisy. While this association has not been reported previously, the temporal relationship and absence of another cause suggest that the pleuritis could be a systemic manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000209:etiology*