Defining the mesentery as an organ and what this means for understanding its roles in digestive disorders

Expert Review of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 703-705

  Coffey, J Calvin ^a,b,c   O’leary, D Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL FIBROMATOSIS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDITORIAL; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; MESENTERIC CAVITATION SYNDROME; MESENTERIC DESMOID; MESENTERIC MESOTHELIOMA; MESENTERIC SCLEROSIS; MESENTERY; MESENTERY DISEASE; MESOTHELIOMA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; RETROPERITONEUM; TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; MESENTERY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85019252387     PISSN: 17474124     EISSN: 17474132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17474124.2017.1329010     Document Type: Editorial

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