Inflammatory Bowel DiseaseJoseph B. Kirsner, Roy Gerrard Shorter This text is intended to help provide the practical perspectiv= e practitioners need to manage patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease. This fourth edition contains 11 new chapters and is illustrated with photographs and detailed line drawings. |
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... tients with mild disease were caused by colitis . For severe attacks , colectomy was necessary in 29 % of patients and death occurred in 23 % of these . Such results can be compared to those cited by Edwards and Truelove for the pre ...
... tients with mild disease were caused by colitis . For severe attacks , colectomy was necessary in 29 % of patients and death occurred in 23 % of these . Such results can be compared to those cited by Edwards and Truelove for the pre ...
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... tients older than 70 years as compared with a 2.7 % first attack mortality rate for those pa- tients between the ages of 50 and 69. Carr and Schofield ( 44 ) observed that no elderly pa- tients with left - sided colitis or proctitis re ...
... tients older than 70 years as compared with a 2.7 % first attack mortality rate for those pa- tients between the ages of 50 and 69. Carr and Schofield ( 44 ) observed that no elderly pa- tients with left - sided colitis or proctitis re ...
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... tients with pancolitis comprise 20 % of popula- tion studies and up to 40 % in referral center series . Copenhagen and Scottish studies in- cluded only 16 % with total colitis while Upp- sala , Rochester , Minnesota , and Stockholm had ...
... tients with pancolitis comprise 20 % of popula- tion studies and up to 40 % in referral center series . Copenhagen and Scottish studies in- cluded only 16 % with total colitis while Upp- sala , Rochester , Minnesota , and Stockholm had ...
Contents
Historical Antecedents of Inflammatory | 3 |
The Epidemiology of Idiopathic Inflammatory | 31 |
Naturally Occurring and Experimental Models | 71 |
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