Are the clinical features of ulcerative colitis different in the elderly?

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 354-355

  Kusugami, K ^a   Ina, K ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MESALAZINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; COLON SURGERY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; FOLLOW UP; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GREECE; HUMAN; ITALY; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034986884     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005350170104     Document Type: Editorial

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