Smooth muscle inclusion bodies in slow transit constipation

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 390-397

  Knowles, Charles H ^a   Nickols, Carole D ^a   Scott, S Mark ^a   Bennett, Nick I ^a   de Oliveira, Ricardo Brandt ^b   Chimelli, Leila ^b   Feakins, Roger ^a   Williams, Norman S ^a   Martin, Joanne E ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Constipation; Denervation; Inclusion bodies; Myopathy; Slow colonic transit; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL COUNT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SHAPE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON; COLON AGANGLIONOSIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUSCLE; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MYOPATHY; PELVIS SURGERY; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; SIGMOID; STOMACH EMPTYING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHAGAS DISEASE; COLON; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMANS; ILEUM; INCLUSION BODIES; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0035091524     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(2000)9999:9999<::AID-PATH797>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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