Secondary lymphangiectasia of the small bowel: Utility of double balloon enteroscopy for diagnosis and management

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-386

  Safatle Ribeiro, Adriana Vaz ^a   Iriya, Kiyoshi ^a   Sampaio Couto, Décio ^a   Kawaguti, Fábio Shiguehiss ^a   Retes, Felipe ^a   Ribeiro Jr , Ulysses ^a   Sakai, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blastomycosis; Double balloon enteroscopy; Enteroscopy; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Lymphangioma; Paracoccidioidomycosis; Small bowel; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; SMALL INTESTINE; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE;

EID: 59649108992     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000177027     Document Type: Article

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