Imaging of Perianal Fistulas

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1037-1045

  Ziech, Manon ^a   Felt Bersma, Richelle ^b   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; MERCAPTOPURINE; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANUS FISTULA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FISTULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; SEPSIS;

ANUS DISEASES; CROHN DISEASE; FISTULA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349559765     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2009.06.030     Document Type: Article

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