Recurrent severe gastrointestinal bleeding and malabsorption due to extensive habitual megacolon

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 11, Issue 48, 2005, Pages 7686-7687

  Mecklenburg, Ingo ^a   Leibig, Markus ^a   Weber, Christof ^b   Schmidbauer, Stefan ^b   Folwaczny, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Habitual megacolon; Malabsorption

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FERRITIN; IRON; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COLON DILATATION; COLON LAVAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MEGACOLON; OCCULT BLOOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 31644434545     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i48.7686     Document Type: Article

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