Background: Subjective physician assessment is the cornerstone of routine ulcerative colitis (UC) management. Endoscopic and histologic assessment of UC provides objective measures of inflammatory disease activity. The level of agreement between physician impression of UC activity and endoscopic dis
186 Ulcerative Colitis: Fecal Calprotectin Correlates Closely with the Endoscopically Assessed Disease Activity
β Scribed by Alain Schoepfer; Christoph Beglinger; Alex Straumann; Pietro Renzulli; Frank Seibold
- Book ID
- 119430014
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 136
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-5085
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