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
Mucosal proinflammatory cytokine production correlates with endoscopic activity of ulcerative colitis
β Scribed by Yoh Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 260 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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