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Treatment-Related Conditions

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A variety of conditions may develop as an adverse event or within the context of certain types of treatment such as endoscopic and surgical procedures, radio- and chemotherapy, and stem cell or solid organ transplantation. While the histopathological aspect of a colon biopsy or resection may suggest the diagnosis, clinical information is extremely useful because other diseases may mimic treatment-related patterns or the lesions secondary to the treatment may not be specific. This chapter overviews the morphological features and differential diagnosis of these conditions and diseases arising in the setting of certain types of treatment, excluding treatments with non-chemotherapeutic medications/drugs, which are discussed elsewhere in this book.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, UCL, Brussels, Belgium

    Louis Libbrecht

  2. Department of Pathology, University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Maria Leo

  3. Department of Surgical Sciences, University Hospital San Giovanni di Dio, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Maria Leo

  4. Department of Pathology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

    Karel Geboes

  5. Department of Pathology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Karel Geboes

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Libbrecht, L., Leo, M., Geboes, K. (2018). Treatment-Related Conditions. In: Jouret-Mourin, A., Faa, G., Geboes, K. (eds) Colitis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89503-1_10

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