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Does diverticulitis considered an inflammatory bowel disease? or just inflammatory disease
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Diverticulitis.: Acute diverticulitis is an infection of a diverticulum that aberrantly outpouches from the colon. This is not considered an inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's.
Answered 8/25/2016
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