Clinical, endoscopic, and histological differentiations between crohn's disease and intestinal tuberculosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 642-651

  Makharia, Govind K ^a   Srivastava, Siddharth ^a   Das, Prasenjit ^a   Goswami, Pooja ^a   Singh, Urvashi ^a   Tripathi, Manasee ^a   Deo, Vaishali ^a   Aggarwal, Ashish ^a   Tiwari, Rajeew P ^a   Sreenivas, V ^a   Gupta, Siddhartha Datta ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; INTESTINE ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 77949273279     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2009.585     Document Type: Article

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