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Psyche and inflammatory bowel disease

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Coeliac Disease in Children

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Psychological factors have been, and in some quarters still are, held to be of significant importance for the aetiology, the timing of onset or exacerbation and the course of inflammatory bowel disease.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Basel, Switzerland

    F. Hadziselimovic , B. Herzog  & A. Bürgin-Wolff ,  & 

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Basler Kinderspital, Römergasse 8, CH-4005, Basel, Switzerland

    F. Hadziselimovic

  3. Pediatric Surgery, Basler Kinderspital, Römergasse 8, CH-4005, Basel, Switzerland

    B. Herzog

  4. Basler Kinderspital, Römergasse 8, CH-4005, Basel, Switzerland

    A. Bürgin-Wolff

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Stacher, G. (1990). Psyche and inflammatory bowel disease. In: Hadziselimovic, F., Herzog, B., Bürgin-Wolff, A. (eds) Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Coeliac Disease in Children. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1850-4_12

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