Relationship between nutritional status and histologic findings in small bowel mucosa of children presenting with diarrhoea of more than 14 days' duration

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 302-304

  Pires, Ana Luiza Guedes ^a,b   Da Silveira, Themis Reverbel ^a   Scholl, João Grigoletti ^a  

^a Department of Physiological Sciences   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE VILLUS; KWASHIORKOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MARASMUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 0032728241     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/45.5.302     Document Type: Article

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