Dysphagia in Crohn's disease: A diagnostic challenge

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 660-664

  Knoblauch, C ^a   Netzer, P ^a   Scheurer, U ^a   Seibold, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Crohn's disease; Dysphagia; Oesophageal fistula

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BARIUM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FIBROSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MANOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RECURRENT DISEASE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036742168     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(02)80210-9     Document Type: Article

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