Is a 9-month treatment sufficient in tuberculous enterocolitis? A prospective, randomized, single-centre study

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-91

  Kim, S G ^a   Kim, J S ^a   Jung, H C ^a,b   Song, I S ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LIVER ENZYME; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; URIC ACID;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER ENZYME ELEVATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZATION; RASH; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SOUTH KOREA; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOUS ENTEROCOLITIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 0041343249     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01599.x     Document Type: Article

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