Refractory diverticular colitis with progressive ulcerative colitis-like changes extending to the rectum

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 188-191

  Yamane, Tateki ^a,b   Uchiyama, Kan ^b   Ishii, Takayuki ^c   Ishii, Hironori ^b   Omura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Fujise, Kiyotaka ^b   Tajiri, Hisao ^b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology   (Japan)

^c Department of Endoscopy ^*

Author keywords

Diverticular colitis; Treatment refractoriness; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; MESALAZINE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; APHERESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIARRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; JAPAN; MALE; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

AGED; COLITIS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; MALE; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 67949108128     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2009.00884.x     Document Type: Article

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