Acute hemorrhage from small bowel diverticula harboring Strongyloidiasis and Schistosomiasis

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 539-541

  Fairweather, Mark ^a   Burt, Bryan M ^b   VanderLaan, Paul A ^b   Brunker, Patricia A R ^b   Bafford, Andrea C ^b   Ashley, Stanley W ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COLON HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JEJUNUM; LETTER; MALE; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ANIMALS; DIVERTICULUM; DUODENAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 77953505017     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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