Liver abscesses as the presenting manifestation of Crohn's disease in an adolescent [2]

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 666-667

  Navot Mintzer, Dalya ^a   Koren, Ariel ^a   Shahbari, Azmi ^b   Nussinson, Elhanan ^b   Sakran, Waheeb ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CLOXACILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LETTER; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE;

EID: 33745577365     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MIB.0000225336.06732.90     Document Type: Letter

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