Testing strategies and follow-up for coeliac disease in a general internal medicine outpatient department from 2000 to 2005

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 45-46, 2006, Pages 732-738

  Richter, Jens C ^a   Netzer, Peter ^a   Cottagnoud, Philippe ^a   Stucki, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coeliac disease; Gluten; Screening; Sprue; Testing strategy; Tissue transglutaminase

Indexed keywords

GLIADIN; GLUTAMINE; GLUTEN; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CELIAC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY;

EID: 33845932391     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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