Diagnosing colitis: A prospective study on essential parameters for reaching a diagnosis

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1004-1008

  Dejaco, Clemens ^a   Oesterreicher, C ^a   Angelberger, S ^a   Puspok A ^a   Birner, P ^a   Poetzi, R ^a   Gangl, A ^a   Oberhuber, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; MESALAZINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COLITIS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0344308516     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-44593     Document Type: Article

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