Multifocal stenosing ulceration of the small intestine

Table 2 Differentiation of CMUSE from Crohn’s disease

Absence of clinical or laboratory features of an inflammatory syndrome

Absence of small-intestinal transmural inflammatory process or ulceration

Absence of small-intestinal giant-cell granulomatous inflammatory process

Absence of small-intestinal fistula formation despite recurrent chronic disease

Absence of disease in other parts of gastrointestinal tract (i.e. stomach or colon)

Absence of most extraintestinal features of Crohn’s disease (e.g. skin manifestations)

CMUSE: Cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis.