Recurrent abdominal pain in systemic sclerosis: Not always intestinal pseudo-obstruction [4]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 605-607

  Jimenez Saenz M ^a   Ortiz Moyano, C ^a   Cantillana Martinez, J ^a   Herrerias Gutierrez J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DRY SKIN; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUSHING; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALAISE; MOUTH DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; VOMITING; WHEEZING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CARCINOID TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141762656     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2003.00734.x     Document Type: Letter

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