What's in a name? The (mis)labelling of Crohn's as an autoimmune disease

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9736, 2010, Pages 202-203

  Behr, Marcel A ^a   Divangahi, Maziar ^a,b   Lalande, Jean Daniel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 77955029240     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60282-6     Document Type: Note

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