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Diagnostics of inflammatory bowel disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2007
Nikolaus Susanna, Schreiber Stefan
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The diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with its 2 main subforms, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is based on clinical, endoscopic, radiologic, and histologic criteria. This paradigm remains unchanged despite the advent of new molecular technologies for the examination of serum proteins and genetic sequences, respectively. The main innovations in diagnostic technologies include the development...
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