Significance of appendiceal involvement in patients with ulcerative colitis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 180-185

  Matsumoto, Takayuki ^a,b,c,d   Nakamura, Shotaro ^a,b,c,d   Shimizu, Michio ^a,b,c,d   Iida, Mitsuo ^a,b,c,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; MESALAZINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXUDATE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; APPENDICITIS; FOLLOW UP; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036480381     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.121335     Document Type: Article

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