Pseudomembranes in a patient with flare-up of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Is it only Clostridium difficile or is it still an IBD exacerbation?

Endoscopy

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages

  Berdichevski, T ^a   Barshack, I ^a   Bar Meir, S ^a   Ben Horin, S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM TOXIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERITIS; FEVER; HUMAN; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77951102896     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1244045     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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2. Ben-Horin S, Margalit M, Bossuyt P et al. Prevalence and clinical impact of endoscopic pseudomembranes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease and Clostridium difficile infection. J Crohns Colitis (in press)