title: Inflammatory bowel disease--Polish contribution.
abstract: The term "inflammatory bowel disease" includes ulcerative colitis, Leśniowski-Crohn's disease and indeterminate colitis. The history of these diseases in Poland began with Antoni Leśniowski, who in 1904 described an inflammatory tumour of the small intestine with a fistula to ascending colon. The first contemporary clinical descriptions of the main forms of inflammatory bowel disease emerged after 1960, and were made by Warsaw groups and a surgical group from Poznań. The major contributions of Polish investigators to the development of knowledge about ulcerative colitis and Leśniowski-Crohn's disease were made in the fields of immunology and genetics and in studies on kallikrein-kinin and haemostasis systems. The investigators of pathogenetic mechanisms in these diseases come from departments of gastroenterology in Warsaw, Lublin, Gdańsk and Sosnowiec.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Centre for Postgraduate Education, Oncology Centre, Warsaw, Poland. wbartnik@coi.waw.pl
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bartnik
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D011044:Poland