Faecal elastae-I: Helpful in analysing steatorrhoea?

Netherlands Journal of Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 286-289

  Symersky, T ^a   van der Zon, A ^a   Biemond, I ^a   Masclee, A A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; FECES LIPID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEATORRHEA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FECES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXOCRINE PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY; FECES; HUMANS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEATORRHEA;

EID: 7244245551     PISSN: 03002977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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