Lack of seasonal variation in the endoscopic diagnoses of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2233-2238

  Auslander, Joel N ^a   Lieberman, David A ^a   Sonnenberg, Amnon ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNITED STATES; ADULT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27744569391     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.50127.x     Document Type: Article

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