Relationship of extraintestinal involvements in inflammatory bowel disease: new insights into autoimmune pathogenesis.

doi:10.1023/a:1026629528233

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Relationship of extraintestinal involvements in inflammatory bowel disease: new insights into autoimmune pathogenesis.

Digestive diseases and sciences - 1 Jan 1999

Das K M

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Extraintestinal manifestations in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are quite common (about 25%) and careful clinical observation and statistical analysis during the last five decades have demonstrated that in colitis-associated extraintestinal complications, the organs most commonly...

Topics

Autoantigens
Autoimmunity
Biliary Tract Diseases
Bone Diseases
Eye Diseases
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Liver Diseases
Muscular Diseases
Skin Diseases

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