Epidemiology and outcome of Crohn's disease in a teaching hospital in Riyadh

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1341-1344

  Al Ghamdi, Abdullah S ^a   Al Mofle, Ibrahim A ^a   Al Rashed, Rashed S ^a   Al Amri, Saleh M ^a   Aljebreen, Abdulrahman M ^a   Isnani, Arthur C ^a   El Badawi, Reda ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEET ENEMA; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; ANUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON RESECTION; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GRANULATION TISSUE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LARGE INTESTINE DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 4444379250     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i9.1341     Document Type: Article

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