Severe Odynophagia and Rapidly Progressive Dysphagia as an Unusual Presentation of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Rodrigues, Catarina Graça ^a   Oliveira, Ana ^a   Deus, João Ramos ^a  

^a Hospital Professor Doutor Fernando Fonseca   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DESLORATADINE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MIDDLE AGED; ODYNOPHAGIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; STEROID THERAPY; STOMACH BIOPSY;

DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ENTERITIS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84896087872     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.08.013     Document Type: Article

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