Acute colonic pseudoobstruction: An unusual presentation of thyrotoxic periodic paralysis [6]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2237-2238

  Gentric, Armelle ^a   Le Deun, Paule ^a  

^a SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBIMAZOLE; ELECTROLYTE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOKALEMIA; KALIURESIS; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PERIODIC PARALYSIS; THYROID CRISIS; THYROID FUNCTION TEST;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MALE; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 29344465595     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00512_6.x     Document Type: Letter

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