Ornidazole in the treatment of active Crohn's disease: Short-term results

Italian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 10-14

  Triantafillidis, J K ^a,b   Nicolakis, D ^a   Emmanoullidis, A ^a   Antoniou, A ^a   Papatheodorou, K ^a   Cheracakis, P ^a  

^a Saint Pantelelmon General State Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

CDAI; Crohn's disease; Ornidazole

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORNIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROHN DISEASE; DEFECATION; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REMISSION; SOMNOLENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERTIGO; WELLBEING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROHN DISEASE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORNIDAZOLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029666360     PISSN: 03920623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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