Ulcerative colitis. To the 180th anniversary of the description by Karl Rokytansky

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The article describes the main historical milestones in the description and study of ulcerative colitis from the time of Hippocrates to the present day. The first description of the morphological picture of non-specific ulcerative colitis (NUC) was presented by the Viennese pathologist Karl Rokitansky in 1842. The term "ulcerative colitis" was coined by S. Wilks in 1859. A detailed description of the disease was presented in 1875 by S. Wilks and W. Maxon. In an independent nosological form, NUC was isolated in 1888 by the English doctor White. Boas in 1903. For the first time, he presented the differential diagnosis of NUC and chronic dysentery. The term "non-specific ulcerative colitis" in Russia was first introduced by A.S. Kazachenko in a report at the XIII Congress of Russian Surgeons in 1913.

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Oleg V. Knyazev

Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center; Ryzhykh National Medical Research Сenter of Coloproctology; Research Institute of Health Organization and Medical Management

Email: asfold@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7250-0977

д-р мед. наук, зав. отд-нием воспалительных заболеваний кишечника, проф. научно-образовательного отд., вед. специалист организационно-методического отд. по колопроктологии, вед. науч. сотр.

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow; Moscow

Anna V. Kagramanova

Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center

Email: asfold@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3818-6205

канд. мед. наук, ст. науч. сотр. отд-ния воспалительных заболеваний кишечника

Russian Federation, Moscow

Asfold I. Parfenov

Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center

Author for correspondence.
Email: asfold@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9782-4860

д-р мед. наук, проф., рук. отд. патологии кишечника

Russian Federation, Moscow

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