Hemorrhagic colitis as a presenting feature of Wegener granulomatosis

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 445-447

  Qian, Qi ^a   Cornell, Lynn ^a   Chandan, Vishal ^a   Hartman, Robert ^a   Caples, Sean ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemorrhagic colitis; Pauci immune glomerulonephritis; Pulmonary hemorrhage; Wegener granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; STEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMORRHAGIC COLITIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LAMINA PROPRIA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLASMAPHERESIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; AGED; BIOPSY; COLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; LUNG DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BIOPSY; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES; PLASMAPHERESIS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 79955659348     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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