Epidemiological and clinical profile of irritable bowel syndrome in India: Report of the Indian Society of Gastroenterology Task Force

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-28

  Ghoshal, Uday C ^b   Abraham, Philip ^a   Bhatt, Chetan ^a   Choudhuri, Gourdas ^a   Bhatia, Shobna J ^a   Shenoy, K T ^a   Banka, N H ^a   Bose, Kalyan ^a   Bohidar, N P ^a   Chakravartty, Karmabir ^a   Shekhar, N Chandra ^a   Desai, Nutan ^a   Dutta, Usha ^a   Das, Goutam ^a   Dutta, Sangeet ^a   Dixit, V K ^a   Goswami, B D ^a   Jain, R K ^a   Jain, Sunil ^a   Jayanthi, V ^a   Kochhar, Rakesh ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a   Makharia, Govind ^a   Mukewar, Shrikant V ^a   Mohan Prasad, V G ^a   Mohanty, Alok ^a   Mohan, A T ^a   Sathyaprakash, B S ^a   Prabhakar, B ^a   Philip, Mathew ^a   Veerraju, E Peda ^a   Ray, Gautam ^a   Rai, Ramesh Roop ^a   Seth, A K ^a   Sachdeva, Atul ^a   Singh, Shivaram Prasad ^a   Sood, Ajit ^a   Thomas, Varghese ^a   Tiwari, Shridhar ^a   Tandan, Manu ^a   Upadhyay, R ^a   Vij, J C ^a   more..

^a SGPGI ^*

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INDIA; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK INTOLERANCE; MUCUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 45349091957     PISSN: 02548860     EISSN: 02548860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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