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Similar clinical characteristics of familial and sporadic inflammatory bowel disease in South Korea.
World journal of gastroenterology - 7 Dec 2014
Chung Sook Hee, Park Soo Jung, Lee Hye Sun, Hong Sung Pil, Cheon Jae Hee, Kim Tae Il, Kim Won Ho
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AIM: To investigate differences of clinical characteristics and disease courses between familial and sporadic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. METHODS: We obtained clinical data on Crohn's disease (CD) (n = 691) and ulcerative colitis (n = 1113) from a tertiary referral medical center between 2005 and 2012. Seventeen patients (2.5%) with CD and 27 patients (2.4%) with ulcerative colitis (UC) were...
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