Endoscopic balloon dilatation applied for the treatment of ileocecal valve stricture caused by tuberculosis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 597-598

  Akarsu, M ^a   Akpinar, H ^a  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CECUM; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEOCECAL VALVE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34248591743     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2007.02.008     Document Type: Letter

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