Microscopic colitis: Prevalence and distribution throughout the colon in patients with chronic diarrhoea

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 137-140

  Thijs, W J ^a,b,c   van Baarlen, J ^a   Kleibeuker, J H ^b   Kolkman, J J ^a  

^a MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Scheperziekenhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Diarrhoea; Distribution; Microscopic colitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COLITIS; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PREVALENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS, MICROSCOPIC; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 17644373036     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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