Maximizing the diagnostic information from biopsies in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases: recommendations from the Erlangen International Consensus Conference on Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and presentation of the IBD-DCA score as a proposal for a new index for histologic activity assessment in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

JOURNAL ARTICLE published March 2021 in Virchows Archiv

Research funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TRR241 projects INF, A03, C02, C03, C04,TRR241 projects INF, A03, C02, C03, C04,TRR241 projects INF, A03, C02, C03 and C04,TRR241 projects INF, A03,C02, C03 and C04,Heisenberg Professorship)

Authors: Corinna Lang-Schwarz | Abbas Agaimy | Raja Atreya | Christoph Becker | Silvio Danese | Jean-François Fléjou | Nikolaus Gaßler | Heike I. Grabsch | Arndt Hartmann | Kateřina Kamarádová | Anja A. Kühl | Gregory Y. Lauwers | Alessandro Lugli | Iris Nagtegaal | Markus F. Neurath | Georg Oberhuber | Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet | Timo Rath | Robert Riddell | Carlos A. Rubio | Kieran Sheahan | Herbert Tilg | Vincenzo Villanacci | Maria Westerhoff | Michael Vieth