Epidemiologic characteristics of 500 patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Iran studied from 2004 through 2007

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 454-460

  Vahedi, Homayoun ^a   Merat, Shahin ^a   Momtahen, Shabnam ^a   Olfati, Golrokh ^a   Kazzazi, Amir Sadreddin ^a   Tabrizian, Tahmineh ^a   Rashtak, Shahrooz ^a   Khaleghnejad, Reza ^a   Khademi, Hooman ^a   Malekzadeh, Fatemeh ^a   Nasseri Moghaddam, Siavash ^a   Malekzadeh, Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Epidemiology; IBD; Iran; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEASLES VACCINE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAL FISTULOTOMY; ANEMIA; APPENDECTOMY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BARIUM ENEMA; BREAST FEEDING; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; ENTERITIS; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INFANCY; INTESTINAL ABSCESS; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; NUTRITION; ORAL APHTUS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PROCTITIS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; SACROILIITIS; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; TONSILLECTOMY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; IRAN; MALE; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350350398     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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