Endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease when and why

Figure 1 British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on surveillance of colitis. PSC: Primary sclerosing cholangitis; CRC: Colorectal cancer.

Figure 2 British Society of Gastroenterology surveillance recommandations post colectomy. PSC: Primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Figure 3 Severe colitis (Sutherland score 3). Friable, granular mucosa with exudates overlying the surface, ulcers and sub mucosal oedema of rectum.

Figure 4 Post inflammatory polyp in transverse colon in a patient with ulcerative colitis.

Figure 5 Extensive scarring of sigmoid colon in a patient with long history of colitis.

Figure 6 Shortened tubular colon in a patient with pan colitis.

Figure 7 Deep ulcers, sub mucosal oedema and haemorrhages in the sigmoid colon in a patient with Crohn’s colitis.

Figure 8 Multiple linear, deep ulcers with normal islands of intervening mucosa in the terminal ileum indicates severe Crohn’s disease.

Figure 9 Linear pyloric ulcer and surrounding sub mucosal oedema-pyloric Crohn’s disease.

Figure 10 Balloon dilatation of Crohn’s stricture.

Figure 11 Dysplasia-associated lesions/masse in caecal pole in a patient with a long history of pancolitis.

Figure 12 Dysplasia-associated lesions/masse in caecal pole after dye spray.

Figure 13 Aphthous ulcer in the neo terminal ileum in a patient who had ileorectal anastomosis( indicates recurrence of Crohn’s disease). Note healthy surrounding mucosa.

Figure 14 Pin hole stricture in the neo terminal ileum (Crohn’s disease).