ASGE guideline: Endoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 558-565

  Leighton, Jonathan A ^a   Shen, Bo ^a   Baron, Todd H ^a   Adler, Douglas G ^a   Davila, Raquel ^a   Egan, James V ^a   Faigel, Douglas O ^a   Gan, Seng Ian ^a   Hirota, William K ^a   Lichtenstein, David ^a   Qureshi, Waqar A ^a   Rajan, Elizabeth ^a   Zuckerman, Marc J ^a   VanGuilder, Trina ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLON DILATATION; COLON RESECTION; COLON STENOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; DYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; ILEOSCOPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 33645219314     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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