Adult celiac disease and the severe "flat" small bowel biopsy lesion

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 535-545

  Freeman, Hugh James ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Celiac disease; Classic, occult, and latent celiac disease; Intraepithelial lymphocytes; Refractory sprue; Severe ("Flat") or variably severe lesions; Sprue like intestinal disease; Unclassified sprue

Indexed keywords

CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MALABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; ADULT; AGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL INTESTINE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CELIAC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 2942746627     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:DDAS.0000026295.64670.d1     Document Type: Review

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