How do you treat refractory pouchitis and when do you decide to remove the pouch?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-169

  Becker, James M ^a   Stucchi, Arthur F ^a   Bryant, Diane E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON RESECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POUCHITIS; PROCTOCOLECTOMY, RESTORATIVE;

EID: 0032067959     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.3780040213     Document Type: Short Survey

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