Unique challenges for appropriate management of a 16-year-old girl with superior mesenteric artery syndrome as a result of anorexia nervosa: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Verhoef, Philip A ^a,b   Rampal, Angelika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADOLESCENT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION; DECREASED APPETITE; DIET THERAPY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL WORK; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 72149098173     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-3-127     Document Type: Article

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