Sabiston Ch52 — Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Citation: Galandiuk S, Netz U, Morpurgo E, Tosato SM, Abu-Freha N, Ellis CT. Chapter 52: Colon and Rectum. In: Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 21st ed. Elsevier; pp. 1344–1355 (this chunk).
Source type: Textbook chapter — reference source, not a primary study. See Sabiston Ch52 - Diverticular Disease, Obstruction & Pseudo-Obstruction for the general note on how this chapter is being used in the wiki (background/orientation, not critically-appraised primary evidence).
This is chunk 2 of the chapter (chunk 1 covered diverticular disease, large bowel obstruction, and Ogilvie syndrome). Still to come: infectious colitis, ischemic colitis, neoplasia/staging, rectal cancer surgery, pelvic floor disorders.
Scope of this chunk
Pages 1344–1355: the full Inflammatory Bowel Disease section — epidemiology/etiology, classification, clinical presentation, extraintestinal manifestations, diagnosis (endoscopic and histologic), medical treatment, and surgical indications/options for both ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease.
Filing
This chunk generated four new pages rather than being folded into a single condition page, given its density and the surgeon-relevant detail:
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease — shared material: epidemiology/genetics, classification, clinical/extraintestinal features, diagnosis, medical treatment.
- Ulcerative Colitis — UC-specific surgical indications and options.
- Crohn Disease — Crohn’s-specific surgical indications and options.
- Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis (IPAA) — first procedure page in the wiki; technique detail shared by both UC and Crohn’s surgical management.
See those pages for the synthesized content — this source page exists mainly as the citation anchor and a note on what got split where.
Relevance
This is the wiki’s first IBD content of any kind. As a textbook chapter, it’s a reasonable skeleton (classification schemes, drug classes, indications-for-surgery framework, standard operations) but has no primary trial data of its own — none of the biologics, surveillance strategies, or surgical approach comparisons here are backed by a specific RCT in this wiki yet. Good candidate area for future primary-literature ingests: any of the biologic trials, pouchitis/ IPAA outcome studies, or UC surveillance-colonoscopy literature would meaningfully upgrade this section from “textbook skeleton” to “sourced synthesis.”