Editor's quiz: GI snapshot. An unsuspected cause of chronic colitis

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Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Richter, J ^a   Heintges, T ^a   Thomassen, D ^b   Tannich, E ^c   Haussinger D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Diseases ^*  (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON FISTULA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ULCER; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOZOITE; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INTESTINE INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COLITIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE;

EID: 33646767761     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.077487     Document Type: Article

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