Utility of fecal calprotectin as a discriminative biomarker between ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome and its ability to be used for the assessment of the remission stage of ulcerative colitis
Background and aim Fecal calprotectin (FC) has been proposed in recent studies as a sensitive, specific biomarker for the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (UC). Hence, the present study sought to investigate the efficacy of FC for the diagnosis and monitoring of UC, as well as to assess the correlati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2016-01-01
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| Series: | The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.esim.eg.net/article.asp?issn=1110-7782;year=2016;volume=28;issue=1;spage=21;epage=27;aulast=Elsaadany |