Pathology
Following are the most common diseases or disorders of the colon:
- Angiodysplasia of the colon
- Appendicitis
- Chronic functional abdominal painNF
- Colitis
- Colorectal cancer
- Constipation
- Crohn's disease
- Diarrhea
- DiverticulitisNF
- Diverticulosis
- Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionosis)
- Ileus
- Intussusception
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Polyp (medicine) (see also Colorectal polyp)
- Pseudomembranous colitis
- Ulcerative colitis and toxic megacolon
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“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)