Acute adrenal crisis in a patient treated with rectal steroids [1]

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-64

  Barlow, A D ^a   Clarke, G A ^a   Kelly, Michael J ^a  

^a LEICESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; PREDNISOLONE 3 SULFOBENZOATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL CORTEX INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; ILEUM POUCH; LETHARGY; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL GLAND DISEASES; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; ENEMA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDNISONE; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 1042269513     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00540.x     Document Type: Letter

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