Eosinophilic enteritis presenting as acute intestinal obstruction: A case report and review of the literature

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 326-329

  Uenishi, Takahiro ^a   Sakata, Chikaharu ^b   Tanaka, Shogo ^a   Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^a   Shuto, Taichi ^a   Hirohashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Kubo, Shoji ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Taisho Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Eosinophilic gastroenteritis; Eosinophils; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ENTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOCECAL VALVE; ILEUM; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; PERITONITIS; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMANS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038688080     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071759     Document Type: Article

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