Diagnostic possibilities and clinical indications of policlonal labeled Ig in the bowel inflammatory disease

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 1999, Pages 2260-2264

  Versaci, Antonino ^a,b   Bonanno, Nunzio ^a   Baldari, Sergio ^a   Terranova, Marialuisa ^a   Macri, Antonio ^a   Leonello, Grazia ^a   Famulari, Ciro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Coop Mirage ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Human immunoglobulin labeled with technetium 99m scintigraphy; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 0032827743     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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