Colon tuberculosis: Endoscopic features and prospective endoscopic follow-up after anti-tuberculosis treatment

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mukewar, Saurabh ^a   Mukewar, Shrikant ^b   Ravi, Raghvendra ^b   Prasad, Arun ^b   Dua, Kulwinder S ^c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Midas Institute   (India)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MESALAZINE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON TUBERCULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; ILEOCECAL VALVE MALFORMATION; INTESTINE MALFORMATION; LOSS OF APPETITE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLOR; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84878509122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2155384X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ctg.2012.19     Document Type: Article

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