Pitfalls in the interpretation of nonneoplastic mucosal biopsies in inflammatory bowel disease

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 890-904

  Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a   Odze, Robert D ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUTYRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MESALAZINE; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID;

APHTHOUS ULCER; APPENDICITIS; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON INJURY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAPHRAGM DISEASE; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; METAPLASIA; NONHUMAN; POLYPOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM ULCER; REVIEW; STOMACH DISEASE; TYPHLITIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

BIOPSY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA;

EID: 33947671438     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01105.x     Document Type: Review

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