Toxic megacolon in children with inflammatory bowel disease: Clinical and radiographic characteristics

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1524-1531

  Benchimol, Eric I ^a   Turner, Dan ^a   Mann, Erika H ^a   Thomas, Karen E ^a   Gomes, Tara ^b   McLernon, Robin A ^a   Griffiths, Anne M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; ROC CURVE; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXIC MEGACOLON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CANADA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149108405     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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