Secretory diarrhoea with high faecal potassium concentrations: A new mechanism of diarrhoea associated with colonic pseudo-obstruction? Report of five patients

Gastroenterologie Clinique et Biologique

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-404

  Blondon, H ^a   Bechade D ^a   Desrame J ^a   Algayres, J P ^a  

^a University of Paris Descartes   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; NEOSTIGMINE; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM SALT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON BIOPSY; COLON DILATATION; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; SODIUM ABSORPTION; SODIUM EXCRETION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; DIARRHEA; FECES; HUMANS; HYPOKALEMIA; MALE; POTASSIUM;

EID: 50349089866     PISSN: 03998320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gcb.2007.11.014     Document Type: Article

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