Collagenous colitis: Description of a single centre series of 83 patients

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 499-502

  Jobse, P ^a   Flens, M J ^a   Loffeld, R J L F ^a  

^a ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic diarrhoea; Collagenous colitis; Colonoscopy; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE; LOPERAMIDE; MESALAZINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAGENOUS COLITIS; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIDIARRHEALS; COLITIS, COLLAGENOUS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949175658     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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