What is the natural history of a patient with "non-specific" colitis on large bowel histology?

Annals of Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-118

  Mantzaris, G J ^a,b  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; MESALAZINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ALLERGY; ANAMNESIS; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; IRRITABLE COLON; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; RECTUM BIOPSY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 34548527682     PISSN: 11087471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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