Inflammatory bowel disease in exclusively breast-fed infants.
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2006-11
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Inflammatory bowel disease is uncommon in infants. We present the clinical, endoscopic and pathologic findings for
two exclusively breast-fed infants with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. We emphasize that although inflammatory bowel disease is rare in infants, chronic bloody diarrhea must be a sufficiently alarming symptom to consider
a differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease in young infants is considered, even when they are exclusively
breast-fed
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Infant, inflammatory bowel disease