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Intestinal involvement in Buerger's disease
Z Hassoun1, M Lacrosse, T De Ronde
1Department of Gastroenterology, Cliniques Universitaires de Mont-Godinne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|January 12, 2001
Abstract:
Thromboangiitis obliterans characteristically affects small- and medium-sized vessels of the limbs in young smokers. There is some controversy about the existence of visceral localizations of the disease. The case of a patient with a well-established diagnosis of thromboangiitis obliterans who presented with mesenteric ischemia is described and the literature concerning mesenteric involvement in the disease is reviewed.