Irritable bowel syndrome: Definitive diagnostic criteria help focus symptomatic treatment

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 203-207

  Licht, Harvey Michael ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; CISAPRIDE; DICYCLOVERINE; FLUOXETINE; HYOSCYAMINE; LOPERAMIDE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0034063117     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2000.03.950     Document Type: Article

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