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Diverticulitis in the multiple endocrine neoplasia type II B syndrome
S D Eyer1, D C Snover, J P Delaney
1Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Hospitals, Minneapolis.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Diffuse ganglioneuromatosis of the entire alimentary tract is a characteristic finding in the multiple endocrine neoplasia type II B syndrome. Symptoms and complications of colonic involvement are common. We report a 37-yr-old woman with multiple endocrine neoplasia type II B syndrome and a colovesical fistula complicating sigmoid diverticulitis.