Ulcerative Colitis Beginning in Childhood

Ulcerative colitis is not frequent in childhood, but there is a general clinical impression that, when it does occur in children, it frequently runs a severe course. It is therefore valuable to have the sort of study on prognosis reported by Devroede and his colleagues in this number of the Journal (p 17). It is a measure of the wealth of clinical experience at the Mayo Clinic that the authors have been able to assemble no fewer than 396 subjects seen while children at the Clinic from 1919 to 1965 in whom the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis was firm. The . . .