Brain white matter lesions occur with inflammatory bowel disease

White matter is the myelinated tissue in the central nervous system. To quote this recent paper on the link between inflammatory bowel disease and neurodegeneration: "These cases, together with previous reports, suggest that white matter lesions may be another extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease."

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