Congenital Vascular Lesions of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Blue Rubber Bleb Nevus and Klippel-Trenaunay Syndromes

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 405-410

  Arguedas, Miguel R ^b   Shore, Gregory ^b   Mel Wilcox, C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOOSTEOHYPERTROPHY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLUE NEVUS; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DOMINANT GENE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SYNDROME;

ADULT; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENES, DOMINANT; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HUMANS; KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY-WEBER SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, BLUE; RECURRENCE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035317099     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200104000-00010     Document Type: Article

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