VALIDITY OF ACTIVITY INDICES IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS: COMPARISON OF CLINICAL AND ENDOSCOPIC INDICES
โ Scribed by Fumihito Hirai; Toshiyuki Matsui; Kunihiko Aoyagi; Nagamu Inoue; Toshifumi Hibi; Nobuhide Oshitani; Hisao Fujii; Kiyonori Kobayashi; Yasuo Suzuki; Shinji Tanaka
- Book ID
- 108988374
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0915-5635
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