Mucosal healing of crohn's disease demonstrated by capsule endoscopy in a woman with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1065-1067

  Akhtar, R Y ^a,b   Lewis, Blair S ^a   Ullman, Thomas ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 1069 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESALAZINE;

ADULT; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; DRUG RESPONSE; EDEMA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STENOSIS; TISSUE REPAIR; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULCER; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ILEUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 65449130481     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2008.177     Document Type: Letter

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