Clinical patterns of Crohn's disease in Greece: A follow-up study of 155 cases

Digestion

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-128

  Triantafillidis, John K ^a,e   Emmanouilidis, Anastasios ^b   Manousos, Orestis ^c   Nicolakis, Dimitrios ^a   Kogevinas, Manolis ^d  

^a S Panteleimon Gen State Hospital   (Greece)

^b ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^d INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer development; Clinical patterns; Crohn's disease; Epidemiology; Extraintestinal manifestations; Familial occurrence; Natural history; Perianal disease

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CANCER; CHILD; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FISTULA; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYMPTOM; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033999848     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000007744     Document Type: Article

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