Acute neuronopathic Gaucher disease complicated by fatal gastrointestinal bleeding

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 163-165

  Hoffmann, B ^a   Schwahn, B ^a   Knobbe, C B ^b   Vogel, M ^a   Blohm, M ^a   Mayatepek, E ^a   Wendel, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Gaucher disease; Glucocerebrosidase; Ulcer

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSYLCERAMIDASE; IMIGLUCERASE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENZYME REPLACEMENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FATALITY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; GAUCHER DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; THERAPY DELAY;

FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GAUCHER DISEASE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 33748989537     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-924556     Document Type: Article

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