Absence of the interstitial cells of Cajal in a child with chronic pseudoobstruction

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Struijs, Marie Chantal ^a   Diamond, Ivan R ^a   Pencharz, Paul B ^a   Chang, Kenneth T E ^a   Viero, Sandra ^a   Langer, Jacob C ^a   Wales, Paul W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

C kit; Interstitial cells of Cajal; Intestinal dysmotility; Intestinal failure

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL CELL OF CAJAL; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MANOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM BIOPSY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MESODERM; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT;

EID: 56449094159     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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