Evaluation of chronic gastrointestinal symptoms following Persian Gulf War exposure

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 696-700

  Koch, Timothy R ^a,b   Emory, Theresa S ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOMA; COLON BIOPSY; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEARTBURN; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HIATUS HERNIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IRAN; MALE; MELANOSIS; NONHUMAN; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SEROLOGY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 23444450594     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.8.696     Document Type: Article

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