TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 34. Ulcerative Colitis A1 - Forbes, Shawn A1 - Messenger, David A1 - McLeod, Robin S. A2 - Zinner, Michael J. A2 - Ashley, Stanley W. PY - 2013 T2 - Maingot's Abdominal Operations, 12e AB - Ulcerative colitis, one of the idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), is a chronic disease that affects the mucosa of the rectum and colon. Although Hippocrates described diarrheal diseases that were colitis-like well before 360 bc, it was not until the late 1800s that ulcerative colitis was distinguished clinically from common infectious enteritis. Sir Samuel Wilks of London is credited with the first medical account of colitis. In 1859, he described a 42-year-old woman who died after several months of diarrhea and fever. Postmortem examination revealed a transmural ulcerative inflammation of the colon and terminal ileum that, while originally designated as “simple ulcerative colitis,” may in fact have been Crohn's disease. A subsequent case report in 1875, again by Wilks and Walter Moxon, described ulceration and inflammation of the entire colon in a young woman who had succumbed to severe bloody diarrhea, and it is more likely the first detailed account of ulcerative colitis. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57014377 ER -