title: Progress and frustration in inflammatory bowel disease.
abstract: Advances -- and lack of them -- in our understanding of the aetiology, nature, and treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease during the past 30 years are reviewed with special reference to personal experience.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007081:Ileostomy; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D051379:Mice; D011817:Rabbits