Acute fulminant ulcerative colitis with toxic megacolon

Pediatrics International

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 237-240

  Igarashi, Chiharu ^a   Hori, Tsukasa ^a,b   Yoshida, Masaki ^a,b   Yokozawa, Masato ^a,b   Fujita, Shigeru ^a   Yonezawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Tosaka, Matsumi ^a   Yoshida, Yutaka ^a  

^a Kushiro City General Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant ulcerative colitis; Steroid; Toxic megacolon

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0030946763     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1997.tb03590.x     Document Type: Article

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