Three cases of pneumatosis intestinalis presenting in autoimmune diseases

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 610-615

  Sagara, Akihiro ^a,b   Kitagawa, Kiyoki ^b   Furuichi, Kengo ^b   Kitajima, Shinji ^b   Toyama, Tadashi ^b   Okumura, Toshiya ^a,b   Hara, Akinori ^b   Sakai, Yoshio ^b   Kaneko, Shuichi ^b   Wada, Takashi ^b  

^a TONAMI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune diseases; Pneumatosis intestinalis

Indexed keywords

CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTIAM; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; INTESTINAL EMPHYSEMA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LABORATORY TEST; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CEFOTIAM; COLOSTOMY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION THERAPY; PNEUMATOSIS CYSTOIDES INTESTINALIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865394051     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-011-0551-3     Document Type: Article

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