Abstract:Objective To explore the clinical significance of endoscopic multipoint biopsy in the differential diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC).Methods The clinical data of 47 CD patients and 53 UC patients who were treated in the outpatient department of Huai'an Hospital Affiliated to Xuzhou Medical University from March 2019 to March 2022 were retrospectively analyzed, and their endoscopic biopsy pathological sections were collected. The CD patients were set as the CD group, and the UC patients were set as the UC group. The clinical data, laboratory indexes, clinical manifestations, endoscopic manifestations, and pathological manifestations of endoscopic biopsy were compared between the two groups.Results There were no significant differences in gender composition ratio, age of onset, disease duration, platelet count, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate between CD group and UC group (P > 0.05). The rates of diarrhea and bloody stool in the UC group were higher than those in the CD group, and the rates of fever, anemia, and extraintestinal manifestations were lower than those in the CD group (P < 0.05). In the endoscopic manifestations in the two groups, compared with the CD group, the composition of sigmoid colon lesions, rectal lesions, continuous distribution of lesions, and annular ulcers in the UC group were higher (P < 0.05); the composition of ileocecal lesions, ascending colon lesions, lesion segment distribution, and longitudinal lesions ulcer, nodular hyperplasia, aphthous ulcer, and cobblestone sign constituted in the UC group were lower (P < 0.05). In the pathological manifestations of endoscopic biopsy in the two groups, compared with the CD group, the composition of irregular mucosal structure surface, villous surface, gland atrophy, gland branching, gland distortion or irregularity, mucosal surface epithelial erosion or flattening, the number of mucous cells decreased; the composition of acute cryptitis, crypt abscess, and increased number of neutrophils in the lamina propria in the UC group were higher (P < 0.05); the composition of mucosal epithelial slit-like ulcers, pseudopyloric gland metaplasia, and focal intermittent inflammatory cells in the mucosa Infiltration and granuloma-like small structures in the UC group were lower (P < 0.05).Conclusion In the differential diagnosis of CD and UC, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze the endoscopic manifestations and the histopathological diagnosis results of multi-point biopsy, and combine the clinical manifestations to improve the accuracy of diagnosis.