Acute Regional Enteritis in Children

Abstract

BOTH the acute and chronic forms of regional enteritis have been well known pathologic entities in adults for the past twenty years. However, surprisingly little has been written about either form of the disease occurring in children.Crohn, Ginzburg and Oppenheimer¹ presented the original description of regional enteritis in 1932, including both the acute and chronic forms. They reported 14 cases of chronic regional enteritis. The youngest patient in this series was seventeen years old. In a later paper, Crohn² reported 11 cases of acute terminal ileitis and stated that he had not seen a case of the disease occurring . . .