Clinical usefulness of EUS for active ulcerative colitis

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 253-260

  Yoshizawa, Shigeru ^a   Kobayashi, Kiyonori ^a   Katsumata, Tomoe ^a   Saigenji, Katsunori ^a   Okayasu, Isao ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MESALAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33846407573     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.10.037     Document Type: Article

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