Regular review: Ulcerative colitis

Abstract
Methods We have based this review on our clinical and research experience in gut immunology and inflammatory diseases together with information from comprehensive monographs 3 4 5 and UK and US guidelines on management.6 7 We also searched Medline from 1985 to July 1999 using the search terms “ulcerative colitis” and “sclerosing cholangitis,” which yielded 6116 and 889 citations respectively and other seminal papers.