Microscopic colitis: A common diarrhoeal disease. An epidemiological study in Örebro, Sweden, 1993-1998

Gut

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 346-350

  Olesen, M ^a   Eriksson, S ^a   Bohr, J ^a   Jarnerot G ^a   Tysk, C ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELIAC DISEASE; CHILD; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWEDEN;

EID: 1242272866     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.014431     Document Type: Article

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