Isolated colonic neurofibroma manifested by massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding and intussusception

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 952-954

  Abramson, Lisa P ^a   Orkin, Bruce A ^a,b   Schwartz, Arnold M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON INTUSSUSCEPTION; COLON TUMOR; COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TRANSVERSE COLON;

EID: 0030827093     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199709000-00020     Document Type: Article

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