Pneumatosis intestinalis presenting in autoimmune diseases: A report of three patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1173, Issue , 2009, Pages 199-202

  Dovrish, Zamir ^a,c   Arnson, Yoav ^a,c   Amital, Howard ^b,c   Zissin, Rivka ^b,c  

^a Department of Medicine 'd' ^*

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Behcet's disease; Pneumatosis intestinalis; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CISAPRIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; OCTREOTIDE; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANOREXIA; APPENDICITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BEHCET DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULOSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TENESMUS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 69949117225     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04807.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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