Microscopic colitis: An unfamiliar but treatable disease

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 41-45

  van der Wouden, E J ^a   Karrenbeld, A ^b   Kleibeuker, J H ^b   Dijkstra, G ^b  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bismuth; Budesonide; Collagenous colitis; Lymphocytic colitis; Microscopic colitis

Indexed keywords

5 ACETAMIDOSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; BECLOMETASONE; BISMUTH CITRATE; BISMUTH SALICYLATE; BUDENOFALK; BUDESONIDE; COLESTYRAMINE; CYCLOSPORIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; ISPAGULA; LOPERAMIDE; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABNORMAL FECES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LYMPHOCYTIC COLITIS; MICROSCOPIC COLITIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTACIDS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BISMUTH; BUDESONIDE; COLITIS, COLLAGENOUS; COLITIS, LYMPHOCYTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 60849095100     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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