Incidence of diverticular disease and complicated diverticular disease in young patients with Williams syndrome

Pediatric Surgery International

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 943-944

  Stagi, Stefano ^a   Lapi, Elisabetta ^b   Chiarelli, Francesco ^a   De Martino, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE REPORT; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; CONSTIPATION; DIVERTICULITIS; DYSURIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME; CHILD; COLON DISEASE; NOTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOID DISEASES; WILLIAMS SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952034770     PISSN: 01790358     EISSN: 14379813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00383-010-2666-6     Document Type: Letter

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