Acute abdomen and lupus enteritis: Thrombocytopenia and pneumatosis intestinalis as indicators for surgery

American Surgeon

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 193-195

  Alcocer Gouyonnet, Francisco ^a   Chan Nuñez, Carlos ^a   Hernández, Jorge ^a   Guzmán, Jaime ^a   Gamboa Domínguez, Armando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE PERFORATION; NECROTIZING ENTERITIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VASCULITIS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADOLESCENT; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; SEROSITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0342615047     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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