Draft clinical guidelines for endoscopic diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in children

Abstract

The article summarizes clinical guidelines for endoscopic examinations (esophagogastroduodenoscopy, ileocolonoscopy, video capsule endoscopy) in children with ulcerative colitis (UC). Such issues of endoscopic examinations and monitoring of UC as indications for primary and repeated examinations, technical aspects of examinations, biopsy, endoscopic activity indices and endoscopic semiotics of UC, the role of video capsule endoscopy are considered.