Microscopic Colitis is Associated with Several Concomitant Diseases
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Microscopic Colitis is Associated with Several Concomitant Diseases
Microscopic colitis (MC) is a disease with intestinal mucosal inflammation causing diarrhea, affecting predominantly middle-aged women. The etiology is unknown, but increased prevalence of autoimmune diseases in these patients has been described, although not compared with controls or adjusted for confounding factors. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of common diseases in pat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Drug Target Insights
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1177-3928,1177-3928
DOI: 10.4137/dti.s12109