Digestive tract disorders associated with asplenia/polysplenia syndrome

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-94

  Nakada, Koonosuke ^a   Kawaguchi, Fumio ^a   Wakisaka, Munechika ^a   Nakada, Masahiro ^a   Enami, Tomotake ^a   Yamate, Noboru ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

asplenia polysplenia; Digestive tract disorders; gastric volvulus; heterotaxia; malrotation

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INTESTINE MALROTATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VOLVULUS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0031028482     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(97)90103-2     Document Type: Article

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