A phenotypic analysis shows that eosinophilic esophagitis is a progressive fibrostenotic disease

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Dellon, Evan S ^a   Kim, Hannah P ^a   Sperry, Sarah L W ^a   Rybnicek, David A ^a   Woosley, John T ^a   Shaheen, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FIBROSIS; GENETICS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896346345     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2013.10.027     Document Type: Article

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