Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction caused by an intestinal inflammatory myopathy: Case report and review of the literature

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 343-348

  Dewit, S ^a   De Hertogh, G ^a   Geboes, K ^a   Tack, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Enteric myopathy; Human; Inflammatory; Intestinal pseudo obstruction

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GUANETHIDINE; NEOSTIGMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDO OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CYCLOSPORINE; EOSINOPHILIA; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINES; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROSCOPY; MYOSITIS; STERILIZATION, TUBAL;

EID: 41149161171     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2007.01033.x     Document Type: Article

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