Reliability of a Crohn's disease clinical classification scheme based on disease behavior.

doi:10.1097/00054725-199808000-00006

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Reliability of a Crohn's disease clinical classification scheme based on disease behavior.

Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Aug 1998

Steinhart A H, Girgrah N, McLeod R S

Abstract excerpt

Classification of Crohn's disease (CD) by disease behavior--either inflammatory (INF), fibrostenotic (FS), or fistulizing/perforating (FP)--has been proposed as a means of assisting management decisions and predicting outcomes for subgroup analysis in clinical trials and for making phenotype/geno...

Topics

Adult
Constriction, Pathologic
Crohn Disease
Disease Progression
Genotype
Humans
Intestinal Fistula
Intestinal Perforation
Male
Observer Variation
Phenotype
Reproducibility of Results
Severity of Illness Index

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