Idiopathic midesophageal stricture: A new cause of dysphagia in a patient with AIDS

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 80-82

  Shapiro, Bradley D ^a,b   Ehrenpreis, Eli D ^a,b,c   Tomaka, Frank L ^a,b   Bonner, Gregory F ^a,b   Secrest, Kristine M ^a,b   Cheney, Lesley M ^a,b  

^a Center for Special Immunology ^*

^b DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; RIFABUTIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0031034070     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199701000-00020     Document Type: Article

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