IBS: Do we need to exclude exocrine pancreatic insufficiency in IBS?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 479-480

  Kellow, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ELASTASE; FECAL ELASTASE 1; PANCREAS ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABNORMAL FECES; BLOATING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EXOCRINE PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 77956391218     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2010.115     Document Type: Short Survey

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