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CROHN DISEASE: PHASES
Nonstenotic phase: blunting, flattening, distortion, straightening, and thickening of mucosal folds (early event from obstructive lymphadema), aphthous ulcers: nodules with shallow central ulcerations, cobblestoning: serpiginousulcers separated by areas of oedema, pseudopolyps: hyperplasticmucosa between denuded mucosa, postinflammatory polyps, skip lesions (90%), pseudodiverticula: bulging area of usualwalloppositeaffected scarred wall, mostly on the antimesenteric side, separation and displacement of littlebowel loops (from magnify in mesenteric thick, enlarged nodes, or perforation with abscess formation), stenotic phase: string sign: strictures (most in TI) in rigid loops, usual proximal loops may be dilated with stasis ulcers and fecoliths see: Crohn malady