Significance of the epithelioid granuloma in biopsies of crohn's colitis

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2271-2275

  Turner, Kevin ^a   Genta, Robert M ^a   Lujan, Giovanni ^a   Robiou, Cristian ^a   Sonnenberg, Amnon ^b  

^a MIRACA LIFE SCIENCES   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Epidemiology; Histopathology; Natural history

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EPITHELIOID GRANULOMA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BIOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; ENDOSCOPY; EPITHELIOID CELL; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; EPITHELIOID CELLS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84925750752     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MIB.0000000000000196     Document Type: Article

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