The importance of diagnostic accuracy in colonic inflammatory bowel disease

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3184-3188

  Farmer, Martin ^a   Petras, Robert E ^b   Hunt, Louise E ^a   Janosky, Janine E ^c   Galandiuk, Susan ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE SECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

BIOPSY; CERTIFICATION; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0033761187     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(00)01992-4     Document Type: Article

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