Gastrointestinal symptoms and motility disorders in patients with systemic scleroderma

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Di Ciaula, Agostino ^a   Covelli, Michele ^b   Berardino, Massimo ^b   Wang, David Q H ^c   Lapadula, Giovanni ^b   Palasciano, Giuseppe ^b   Portincasa, Piero ^b  

^a Division of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION HABIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPEPSIA; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC FULLNESS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER EMPTYING; GALLBLADDER MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH DISTENSION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 41549138305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-8-7     Document Type: Article

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