Finger clubbing and erythropoietin serum levels in active IBD

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 535-536

  Kapsoritakis, Andreas N ^a   Psychos, Athanasios K ^a   Sfiridaki, Aekaterini ^a   Zintzaras, Elias ^b   Potamianos, Spiros P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b Venizelion General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUBBING FINGERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC;

EID: 33745281269     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00054725-200606000-00014     Document Type: Letter

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