Microscopic colitis with granuloma which responded to steroid therapy

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 1551-1555

  Iwai, Hiroki ^a   Hisamatsu, Tadakazu ^a   Iizuka, Hideko ^a   Oyama, Tokunari ^a   Higuchi, Hajime ^a   Imaeda, Hiroyuki ^b   Ogata, Haruhiko ^b   Nagata, Hiroshi ^a   Mikami, Syuji ^a   Mukai, Makio ^a   Hibi, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Microscopic colitis; Multinucleated giant cells; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALBUMIN TANNATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; ELASTASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LOPERAMIDE; MEPENZOLATE; PREDNISOLONE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; STEROID;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EATING DISORDER; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LABORATORY TEST; LACTOBACILLUS BIFIDUS; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MICROSCOPIC COLITIS; NAUSEA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REMISSION; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; COLITIS, MICROSCOPIC; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; STEROIDS;

EID: 34948854867     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0160     Document Type: Article

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