Definitions, pathophysiology, and evaluation of chronic diarrhoea

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 551-562

  Schiller, Lawrence R ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic diarrhoea; Diagnostic testing; Intestinal absorption; Intestinal motility; Intestinal secretion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; FECES INCONTINENCE; REVIEW;

ELECTROLYTE;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; ELECTROLYTES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875238412     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: 15321916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2012.11.011     Document Type: Review

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