Histologic study of colonic mucosa in patients with chronic diarrhea and normal colonoscopic findings

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-48

  Da Silva, José Guilherme Nogueira ^a   De Brito, Thales ^a   Cintra Damião, Adérson Omar Mourão ^a   Laudanna, Antônio Atílio ^a   Sipahi, Aytan Miranda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Colitis; Colonic diseases; Colonoscopy; Diarrhea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON MUCOSA; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EOSINOPHIL COLITIS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; INTESTINAL SPIROCHETOSIS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPIC COLITIS; PERICRYPT EOSINOPHILIC ENTEROCOLITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRANSVERSE COLON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS, MICROSCOPIC; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33644978955     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000190760.72992.ed     Document Type: Article

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