Why should we define and target early Crohn's disease?

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 324-326

  Peyrin Biroulet, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; INFLIXIMAB;

COLON INJURY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY CROHN DISEASE; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 79957952568     PISSN: 15547914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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