Problem areas in the pathology of chronic inflammatory bowel disease

Current Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 248-260

  Ludeman, L ^a   Shepherd, N A ^a  

^a GLOUCESTERSHIRE ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute colitis; Adenoma; Crohn's disease; DALM; Diverticular colitis; Diverticular disease; Duodenitis; Dysplasia; Granulomatous inflammation; Granulomatous vasculitis; Indeterminate colitis; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

PERIODIC ACID;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DYSPLASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GERMINAL CENTER; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE VILLUS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; TISSUE SECTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; YERSINIOSIS;

EID: 33746239118     PISSN: 09686053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdip.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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