Endoscopic evaluation of chronic human immunodeficiency virus-related diarrhea: Is colonoscopy superior to flexible sigmoidoscopy?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-60

  Bini, Edmund J ^a   Weinshel, Elizabeth H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIARRHEA; EVALUATION STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYMENOLEPIASIS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 0032424915     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.056_c.x     Document Type: Article

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