Elderly Adults with Late-Onset Ulcerative Colitis Tend to Have Atypical, Milder Initial Clinical Presentations but Higher Surgical Rates and Mortality: A Taiwan Society of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Oct;64(10):e95-e97. doi: 10.1111/jgs.14427. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Integrated Diagnostics and Therapeutics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
⁵ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁶ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiaokang Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁷ Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

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