Buerger's Disease Affecting Mesenteric Arteries: A Rare Cause of Intestinal Ischemia: A Case Report

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 235-238

  Siddiqui, Mohamed Z ^a   Reis, Ernane D ^a   Soundararajan, Krish ^b   Kerstein, Morris D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTERITIS; ARTICLE; BUERGER DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMOROTIBIAL BYPASS; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE RESECTION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PLASMAPHERESIS; SMOKING AND SMOKING RELATED PHENOMENA;

HUMANS; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS;

EID: 0034998985     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857440103500314     Document Type: Article

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