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digestive leiomyositis
Friday 23 October 2009
Synopsis
chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (15948126, 18004985)
Localization
- gastric leiomyositis
- enteric leiomyositis
- colonic leiomyositis
Etiology
autoimmune enteric leiomyositis (15948126)
References
Haas S, Bindl L, Fischer HP. Autoimmune enteric leiomyositis: a rare cause of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction with specific morphological features. Hum Pathol. 2005 May;36(5):576-80. PMID: 15948126
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction caused by an intestinal inflammatory myopathy: case report and review of the literature. Dewit S, de Hertogh G, Geboes K, Tack J. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2008 Apr;20(4):343-8. PMID: 18004985
