Familial Occurrence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 84-88

  Orholm, Marianne ^a   Munkholm, Pia ^a   Langholz, Ebbe ^a   Nielsen, Ole Haagen ^a   Sφrensen, Thorkild I a ^a   Binder, Vibeke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0025966488     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199101103240203     Document Type: Article

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