Crohn's disease mimicking as bowel endometriosis. Are the symptoms reduced by nafarelin acetate?

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 131-133

  Nakao, Atsunori ^a   Iwagaki, Hiromi ^a   Kanagawa, Taiichiro ^a   Jikuhara, Atsushi ^a   Matsubara, Nagahide ^a   Takakura, Norihisa ^a   Isozaki, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bowel endometriosis; Crohn's disease; Nafarelin acetate

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING FACTOR; NAFARELIN ACETATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; ILEUM; INTESTINE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MENSTRUATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM; TRANSVERSE COLON;

EID: 0034015303     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004040050011     Document Type: Article

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