Continuing low incidence of Crohn's disease in Northwest Greece

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-103

  Tsianos, E V ^a   Katsanos, K H ^a   Christodoulou, D ^a   Dimoliatis, I ^a   Kogevinas, A ^a   Logan, R F ^b   Familias, I ^c   Georgiou, S ^c   Germanopoulos, A ^c   Katsanos, K ^c   Katsaros, S ^c   Kistis, K ^c   Kostas, N ^c   Masalas, K ^c   Monastiriotis, N ^c   Mpaltayannis, G ^c   Papadopoulos, N ^c   Tzambouras, N ^c   Vlachopoulos, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Incidence; Inflammatory bowel disease

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0041766179     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00006-9     Document Type: Article

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