Oligo-antigenic diet in the treatment of chronic anal fissures. evidence for a relationship between food hypersensitivity and anal fissures

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 825-832

  Carroccio, Antonio ^a   Mansueto, Pasquale ^a   Morfino, Giuditta ^b   D'Alcamo, Alberto ^a   Di Paola, Valentina ^b   Iacono, Giuseppe ^c   Soresi, Maurizio ^a   Scerrino, Gregorio ^b   Maresi, Emiliano ^b   Gulotta, Gaspare ^b   Rini, Giovambattista ^a   Bonventre, Sebastiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c Di Cristina Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; FOOD ALLERGY; HEALING; HUMAN; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; WHEAT;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; FOOD HABITS; FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY; MILK PROTEINS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRITICUM;

EID: 84877577479     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2013.58     Document Type: Article

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