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

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Bayreuth GmbH, Preuschwitzer Str. 101, 95445, Bayreuth, Germany.
• ² Institute of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.
• ³ Medical Clinic 1, Department of Medicine & Deutsches Zentrum Immuntherapie DZI, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁴ The Transregio 241 IBDome Consortium, Erlangen, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Gastroenterology, IBD Centre, Humanitas Research Hospital, Via A. Manzoni 56, 20089 Rozzano, Milan, Italy.
• ⁶ Pathology Department, Saint-Antoine Hospital, APHP, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
• ⁷ Institute for Legal Medicine, Section Pathology, University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Pathology, GROW - School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ⁹ Pathology and Data Analytics, Leeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
• ¹⁰ The Fingerland Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
• ¹¹ Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, iPATH.Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
• ¹³ Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Department of Pathology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁵ INNPATH, Institute of Pathology, Tirol Kliniken, Innsbruck, Austria & Patho im Zentrum, St. Pölten, Austria.
• ¹⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Nancy University Hospital, Vandoeuvre, France & Inserm U1256, Lorraine University, Vandoeuvre, France.
• ¹⁷ Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹⁸ Department of Pathology, Karolinska Institute and University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ¹⁹ Department of Pathology & Centre for Colorectal Disease, St Vincent's University Hospital & University College, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²⁰ Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ²¹ Department of Pathology, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
• ²² Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ²³ Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Bayreuth GmbH, Preuschwitzer Str. 101, 95445, Bayreuth, Germany. vieth.lkpathol@uni-bayreuth.de.
• ²⁴ Institute of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. vieth.lkpathol@uni-bayreuth.de.