Watermelon stomach: An unrecognized localization of digestive involvement during progressive systemic sclerosis?;Doit-on considerer l'estomac pasteque comme une localisation meconnue de la sclerodermie?

Journal des Maladies Vasculaires

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 188-191

  Marie, I ^a   Cailleux, N ^a   Hochain, P ^b   Francois A ^b   Metayer, J ^b   Levesque, H ^a   Courtois, H ^a  

^a Dept de Médecine Interne Ctr Hosp Univ Rouen Boisguillaume   (France)

^b ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

gastric antal vascular ectasia; progressive systemic sclerosis; watermelon stomach

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; SCLERODERMA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STOMACH DISEASE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; GASTROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH ANTRUM; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYLORIC ANTRUM; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0029682837     PISSN: 03980499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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