Ileal biopsy: Clinical indications, endoscopic and histopathologic findings in 10,000 patients

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 199-203

  Melton, Shelby D ^b   Feagins, Linda A ^c   Saboorian, M Hossein ^a   Genta, Robert M ^a,b,c  

^a CARIS LIFE SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VA NORTH TEXAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Histopathology; Ileal biopsy; Ileoscopy; Terminal ileum

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEUM BIOPSY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551498058     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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