Endoscopic identification of Peyer's patches of the terminal ileum in a patient with Crohn's disease

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2767-2768

  Ishimoto, Hiroshi ^a,b   Isomoto, Hajime ^b,c   Shikuwa, Saburo ^a   Wen, Chun Yang ^d   Suematu, Takashi ^c   Ito, Masahiro ^a   Murata, Ikuo ^c   Ishibashi, Hiromi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION NAGASAKI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESALAZINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ULCER; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PEYER PATCH; RECTUM ULCER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

EID: 4544347054     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i18.2767     Document Type: Article

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