Subepithelial basement membrane thickness in patients with normal colonic mucosal appearance in colonoscopy: Results from southern Turkey

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1056-1058

  Kayaselcuk, Fazilet ^a   Serin, Ender ^a   Gumurdulu, Yüksel ^a   Ozer, Birol ^a   Tuncer, Ilhan ^a   Boyacioglu, Sedat ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Baskent Universitesi Ankara Hastanesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CECUM; CELL DENSITY; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENDER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECTUM; RECTUM MUCOSA; THICKNESS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 1842716852     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i7.1056     Document Type: Article

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