5-aminosalicylates, sulfasalazine, steroid use, and complications in patients with ulcerative colitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 816-820

  Walker, Alexander M ^b   Szneke, Priscilla ^c   Bianchi, Lisa A ^a   Field, Leni G ^c   Sutherland, Lloyd R ^c   Dreyer, Nancy A ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Epidemiology Resources Inc   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESALAZINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOSALICYLIC ACIDS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MESALAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFASALAZINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030920762     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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