A Study on Differences between Professional Endoscopists and Gastroenterologists in Endoscopic Detection and Standard Pathological Biopsy of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Table 1

Comparison between the baseline and colonoscopy data of patients with CD and those with UC.

	CD ()	UC ()	Statistic	value
Sex				<0.001
Male	88 (73.3)	140 (54.1)
Female	32 (26.7)	119 (45.9)
Age (years)	29.5 (22.0,38.0)	43.0 (31.0, 56.0)		<0.001
Colonoscopy type				0.102
Unsedated colonoscopy	15 (12.5)	50 (19.3)
Sedated colonoscopy	105 (87.5)	209 (80.7)
Bowel preparation				0.055
Excellent	3 (2.5)	5 (1.9)
Good	33 (27.5)	46 (17.8)
Fair	80 (66.7)	186 (71.8)
Poor	4 (3.3)	22 (8.5)
Intestinal stenosis				<0.001
Colorectum	10 (8.3)	5 (1.9)
Ileocecal valve	8 (6.7)	0
Terminal ileum	5 (4.2)	0
No	97 (80.8)	254 (98.1)
End point of intubation				0.502
No ileocecal intubation	11 (9.2)	33 (12.7)
Cecal intubation	16 (13.3)	39 (15.1)
Terminal ileum intubation	93 (77.5)	187 (72.2)
Type of lesions				<0.001
Ulcer	52 (43.3)	11 (4.2)
Erosion	49 (40.8)	161 (62.2)
Ulcer and erosion	10 (8.3)	87 (33.6)
No	9 (7.5)	0
Location of lesions				<0.001
Rectum	26 (21.7)	237 (91.5)
Left colon	49 (40.8)	202 (80.0)
Right colon	72 (60.0)	96 (37.1)
Terminal ileum	49 (40.8)	6 (2.3)
Distribution of lesions				<0.001
Continuous distribution	18 (16.2)	203 (78.4)
Scattered distribution	93 (83.8)	56 (21.6)
Positive diagnosis				<0.001
Yes	76 (63.3)	233 (90.0)
No	44 (36.7)	26 (10.0)
Reexamined colonoscopy in six months				0.001
Yes	21 (17.5)	17 (6.6)
No	99 (82.5)	242 (93.4)

CD: Crohn’s disease; UC: ulcerative colitis.