Presenting features of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease in the central region of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 423-428

  El Mouzan, Mohammad I ^a   Al Mofarreh, Mohammed A ^b   Assiri, Asaad M ^a   Hamid, Yassin H ^a   Al Jebreen, Abdulrahman M ^a   Azzam, Nahla A ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; HEMOGLOBIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOATING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSULTATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; ENTERITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FAMILY HISTORY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FLATULENCE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84859719288     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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