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Can gastroscopy including biopsy tell us something about existense of crohn ?

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Rarely: On rare occasion crohn's disease can involve the stomach causing granulomas you'd gastritis. However, crohn's more commonly dhows involvement of terminal ileum and colon.

Answered 11/2/2015

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