Autoimmune enteric leiomyositis: A rare cause of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction with specific morphological features

Human Pathology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 576-580

  Haas, Susanne ^a   Bindl, Lutz ^b   Fischer, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoimmune hepatitis; Autoimmune leiomyositis; Children; Chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction; Cytotoxic T cells

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE ENTERIC LEIOMYOSITIS; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC INTESTINE PSEUDO OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOTOXIC LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; MYOSITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 20144374967     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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