title: [Differential diagnosis of ulcerative colitis].
abstract: Important points during differential diagnosis of ulcerative colitis from other inflammatory disorders are endoscopic examination and microbial studies of stools. In acute phase of enterocolitis in which waterly diarrhea with bloody stool and abdominal pain appeared, infectious enterocolitis by Shigella, Salmonella, Campylobacter and Yersinia, which sometimes causes mucosal edema, hyperemia, erosions and ulceration should be distinguished carefully. Microbial studies of stool would bring helpful information in such situation. In chronic phase of inflammatory diseases of bowel, they often showed chronic diarrhea associated with mucobloody stools and abdominal pain. They often revealed mucosal inflammation mimicking ulcerative colitis during endoscopic evaluation. Among them, most important diseases are amebic colitis, ischemic colitis, radiation colitis and antibiotics associated hemorrhagic colitis.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kitano
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections; D017091:Colitis, Ischemic / Q000175:diagnosis; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D003113:Colonoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000175:diagnosis; D004760:Enterocolitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans