Behcet's disease: A rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding [2]

International Journal of Colorectal Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 856-858

  Jarrahnejad, Payam ^a   Gadepalli, Samir ^a   Zurkovsky, Eugene ^a   Tulsyan, Nirman ^a   Rolandelli, Rolando ^a  

^a MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROCORTISONE; INDOMETACIN; MESALAZINE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; IRAN; KNEE ARTHRITIS; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; ARTERITIS; BEHCET SYNDROME; COLECTOMY; COLON, SIGMOID; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33749507676     PISSN: 01791958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00384-004-0721-2     Document Type: Letter

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