Irritable bowel syndrome: Disease definition and symptom description

European Journal of Surgery, Supplement

Volumn 164, Issue 583, 1998, Pages 24-28

  Talley, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Definition; Diagnosis; Functional colonic disease; Irritable bowel syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; IRRITABLE COLON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; REVIEW;

COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 0032216675     PISSN: 1102416X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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