Epidemic enterocolitis possibly as a result of Norwalk virus infection presenting as ischemic colitis

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 138-141

  Matsuhashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Nishi, Yumiko ^b   Nagoshi, Daiki ^b   Kanemoto, Hideyuki ^b   Nakajima, Atsushi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Enterocolitis; Ischemic colitis; Norwalk virus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOLITIS; EPIDEMIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MALE; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERISTALSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0141884034     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1443-1661.2003.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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