Giant villous adenoma presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome and pseudo-obstruction

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 225-227

  Miles, Lachlan F ^a   Wakeman, Christopher J ^b   Farmer, K Chip ^a,c  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LOPERAMIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPSY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INTESTINE DISTENSION; KIDNEY EXAMINATION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MCKITTRICK WHEELOCK SYNDROME; MEDICAL RECORD; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OGILVIE SYNDROME; RECTAL VILLOUS ADENOMA; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM ENLARGEMENT; RECTUM TUMOR; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; X RAY ANALYSIS; COLON TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; METABOLIC DISORDER; SYNDROME; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOMA, VILLOUS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 77950362458     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03484.x     Document Type: Article

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