Diagnosis of gastrointestinal forms of Chagas disease;Diagnóstico das manifestações digestivas da doença de Chagas

Enfermedades Emergentes

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 22-27

  Rezende Filho, Joffre ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^b Setor Oeste   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Achalasia; Chagas disease; Enteric nervous system; Megacolon; Megaesophagus

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSPHAGIA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MANOMETRY; MEGACOLON; MEGAESOPHAGUS; PATHOGENESIS; SEROLOGY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34147117376     PISSN: 15754723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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