Is ileoscopy with biopsy worthwhile in patients presenting with symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-206

  Geboes, K ^a   Ectors, N ^a   D'Haens, G ^a   Rutgeerts, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; ILEUM DISEASE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE VILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHILD; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032008379     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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