Impending megacolon: Small bowel distension as a predictor of toxic megacolon in ulcerative colitis

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 487-488

  Hokama, Akira ^a   Ohira, Tetsuya ^a   Kishimoto, Kazuto ^a   Kinjo, Fukunori ^a   Fujita, Jiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; LETTER; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL INTESTINE; TOXIC MEGACOLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MEGACOLON, TOXIC;

EID: 84866540018     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-012-0834-5     Document Type: Letter

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