Eosinophilic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract: Imaging features

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-188

  Anuradha, Chandramohan ^a   Mittal, Rohin ^a   Yacob, Myla ^a   Manipadam, M T ^a   Kurian, Susy ^a   Eapen, Anu ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Diagnostic imaging; Eosinophilia; Gastrointestinal tract

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIC GASTRITIS; EOSINOPHILIC PHARYNGITIS; EOSINOPHILIS PHARYNGITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GASTROSCOPY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ILEOSTOMY; INTESTINE RESECTION; JEJUNOSTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PHARYNGITIS; REOPERATION; STOMACH BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857935681     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.4490-11.1     Document Type: Article

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