Pneumatosis coli in the setting of severe ulcerative colitis: A case report

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 185-191

  Schneider, Jonathan A ^a   Adler, Douglas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Colectomy; Immunosuppression; Inflammatory bowel disease; Pneumatosis intestinalis; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

MESALAZINE; PREDNISONE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; COLON BIOPSY; COLON PERFORATION; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILEOSTOMY; LABORATORY TEST; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 30844451278     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-3106-2     Document Type: Article

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