An autopsy case of AL amyloidosis with intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Japanese Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 699-705

  Komuro, Osamu ^b   Murakami, Shigeto ^b   Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi ^b   Kijima, Hiroyuki ^b   Furushima, Hiroyuki ^b   Sakabe, Syun Ichi ^b   Onoda, Hiroshi ^b   Takagi, Ichiro ^a   Fukunaga, Msaharu ^a   Toda, Gotaro ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CISAPRIDE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXPANTHENOL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; MELPHALAN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; X RAY;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; MALE;

EID: 21044453232     PISSN: 04466586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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