Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
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Observational Study
Accuracy of fecal calprotectin for the prediction of endoscopic activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Fecal calprotectin is a noninvasive marker of inflammatory bowel disease. ⋯ Fecal calprotectin concentration has good diagnostic accuracy for the detection of endoscopic activity in inflammatory bowel disease and performs better in ulcerative colitis than in Crohn's disease.