Disseminated intra-abdominal cystic lymphangiomatosis with severe intestinal bleeding: A case report

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 383-386

  Iwabuchi, Akira ^a   Otaka, Michiro ^a,b   Okuyama, Atsushi ^a   Jin, Mario ^a   Otani, Setsuya ^a   Itoh, Satoshi ^a   Sasahara, Hideaki ^a   Odashima, Masaru ^a   Kotanagi, Hitoshi ^a   Satoh, Masahiro ^b   Masuda, Hirotake ^a   Masamune, Osamu ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine 1 ^*  (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cystic lymphangiomatosis; Intestinal bleeding; Small intestine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUOROGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPHANGIOMA; LYMPHANGIOMATOSIS; MALE; MESENTERY TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMENTUM; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; SPLEEN TUMOR;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031467221     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199707000-00022     Document Type: Article

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