Absence of rectoanal inhibitory reflex in a child with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1268-1271

  Shimotake, Takashi ^a   Kubota, Yoshihiro ^a   Inoue, Katsuhiro ^a   Yanagihara, Jun ^a   Iwai, Naomi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anorectal manometry; Enteric nervous system; Gut motility disorder; Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 131; BARIUM; CALCITONIN; DNA; METHIONINE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PENTAGASTRIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THREONINE;

ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLON DILATATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE INNERVATION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031904646     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(98)90166-X     Document Type: Article

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