Pathology of intestinal motor disorders in children

Surgical Pathology Clinics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 711-741

  Kapur, Raj P ^a  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dysmotility; Hirschsprung disease; Hypoganglionosis; Intestinal pseudo obstruction; Neuronal dysplasia; Rectal biopsy; Visceral myopathy; Visceral neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATAXIN 1; ATAXIN 3; CALRETININ; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HU ANTIBODY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARAFFIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUMO 1 PROTEIN; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; TRANSFER RNA; UBIQUITIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; AGANGLIONOSIS; ATAXIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHRONIC INTESTINAL PSEUDO OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; CONGENITAL HYPOGANGLIONOSIS; CONSTIPATION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEGENERATIVE LEIOMYOPATHY; DEMENTIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DYSAUTONOMIA; ENTERIC GANGLIONITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; EOSINOPHIL; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FROZEN SECTION; GANGLIONEUROMA; GASTRIC DYSMOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOGANGLIONOSIS; IMAGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCONTINENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINAL LEIOMYOSITIS; INTESTINAL NEURONAL DYSPLASIA; INTESTINAL PSEUDO OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LACTIC ACIDEMIA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC LEIOMYOSITIS; MANOMETRY; MEGACOLON; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CELL; MYOPATHY; NERVE CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEURONAL INTRANUCLEAR INCLUSION DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; POLYNEUROPATHY; POLYPOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; RECTUM BIOPSY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLOW TRANSIT CONSTIPATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; STAINING; SYNDROME MMIH; VOMITING;

EID: 77957944041     PISSN: 18759181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.path.2010.06.005     Document Type: Review

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