Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis following lupus enteritis and peritonitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1267-1271

  Mizoguchi, Fumitaka ^a   Nanki, Toshihiro ^a   Miyasaka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyclophosphamide; Enteritis; Peritonitis; Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis; Prednisolone; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MOSAPRIDE CITRATE; OCTREOTIDE; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; COOMBS TEST; DIET THERAPY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; PERITONITIS; PLEURISY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMONIA; PROTEINURIA; RELAPSE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ADULT; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; PERITONITIS; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49649084293     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0748     Document Type: Article

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