Is fecal calprotectin useful for monitoring endoscopic disease activity in patients with postoperative Crohn's disease?

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Yamamoto, Takayuki ^a   Kotze, Paulo Gustavo ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITÁRIO CAJURU   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALGRANULIN; LACTOFERRIN;

COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ENDOSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPID TEST; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION;

CROHN DISEASE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE;

EID: 84887610600     PISSN: 18739946     EISSN: 18764479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crohns.2013.08.005     Document Type: Letter

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