Increased epithelial gaps in the small intestines of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: Density matters

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1174-1180

  Liu, Julia J ^a   Wong, Karen ^a   Thiesen, Aducio L ^a   Mah, Stephanie J ^a   Dieleman, Levinus A ^a   Claggett, Brian ^b   Saltzman, John R ^c   Fedorak, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIAL GAP DENSITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; EPITHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79957847187     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.01.018     Document Type: Article

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