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Striking clinical and radiologic improvement is reported in 4 patients with regional enteritis or enterocolitis (Crohn's disease), in response to treatment with salicylazosulfapyridine.
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Supported in part by Contract Grant DADA17-68-C-8092 of the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, administered through the Commission on Enteric Infections, AFEB, Washington, DC.
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Goldstein, F., Murdock, M.G. Clinical and radiologic improvement of regional enteritis and enterocolitis after treatment with salicylazosulfapyridine. Digest Dis Sci 16, 421–431 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02235087
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02235087