A new treatment for toxic megacolon

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9130, 1998, Pages 782-

  Kuroki, Katsuro ^a,b   Masuda, Akinori ^a   Uehara, Hsato ^a   Kumki, Atsum ^a  

^a Kuroki Gastrointestinal Surgical Hospital   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0032487004     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(98)95043-7     Document Type: Article

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