Effects of appendicectomy on the course of ulcerative colitis

Gut

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 803-807

  Cosnes, Jacques ^a   Carbonnel, F ^a   Beaugerie, L ^a   Blain, A ^a   Reijasse, D ^a   Gendre, J P ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROTHSCHILD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTION; SMOKING HABIT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SMOKING;

EID: 0036896654     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.51.6.803     Document Type: Article

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