Adrenal insufficiency after achalasia in the triple-A syndrome

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-100

  Phillip, Moshe ^a,b   Hershkovitz, Eli ^a   Schulman, Hana ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; FEMALE; FOOD REGURGITATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LACRIMAL GLAND DISEASE; SYNDROME; VOMITING;

EID: 0030047253     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000992289603500208     Document Type: Article

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