Letter to the editor: A case of polyarteritis nodosa diagnosed after recurrent, multiple intestinal perforations

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-72

  Baǧci, Pelin ^a   Erdamar, Sibel ^a   Erzin, Yusuf ^a,b   Karataş, Adem ^a   Tuncer, Murat ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CRYOGLOBULIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EDEMA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIC COLITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GAMMOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; ILEOANAL ANASTOMOSIS; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUM RESECTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NECROTIZING TRANSMURAL ARTERITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYNEUROPATHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT FEVER; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION; SPUTUM CULTURE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84869270034     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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