Inflammatory bowel disease in African Americans

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 380-385

  Reddy, Sarathchandra ^a   Burakoff, Robert ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; NEGRO; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES;

EID: 0344898329     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00054725-200311000-00006     Document Type: Review

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