“…It is also often claimed that the patient suffering from severe ulcerative colitis presents a particularly difficult problem in terms of clinical assessment (Brooke, 1954;Edwards and Truelove, 1963;de Dombal et al, 1965;Goligher et al, 1967). These difficulties in evaluating the patient's clinical state and progress clearly can arise in one of three ways.…”
“…It is also often claimed that the patient suffering from severe ulcerative colitis presents a particularly difficult problem in terms of clinical assessment (Brooke, 1954;Edwards and Truelove, 1963;de Dombal et al, 1965;Goligher et al, 1967). These difficulties in evaluating the patient's clinical state and progress clearly can arise in one of three ways.…”
Recently we also described a large series of cases with severe attacks of ulcerative colitis, the fatality rate of which was considerable, being 9.6% in severe first attacks and 13.7% in severe relapses (de Dombal et al., 1965a
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