Diagnostic work-up of inflammatory bowel disease in children: The role of calprotectin assay

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1926-1930

  Diamanti, A ^a   Panetta, F ^a,b   Basso, M S ^a   Forgione, A ^a   Colistro, F ^a   Bracci, F ^a   Papadatou, B ^a   Francalanci, P ^a   Torroni, F ^a   Knafelz, D ^a   Fina, F ^a   Castro, M ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

fecal calprotectin; inflammatory bowel disease; pediatric patients

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALGRANULIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEFECATION HABIT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTERITIS; FECAL CALPROTECTIN ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUM DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCOLITIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78249275230     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.21257     Document Type: Article

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