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Murine Endoscopy for In Vivo Multimodal Imaging of Carcinogenesis and Assessment of Intestinal Wound Healing and Inflammation
Published on: August 26, 2014
[Freely moving circular shadows in the abdominal cavity--the exudative enteropathy syndrome?]
1IV. detská klinika IVZ Detskej nemocnice, Kosice.
Abstract:
The authors describe a 14-year-old gypsy girl with the clinical picture of exudative enteropathy where they observed on X-ray examination of the abdominal cavity circular formations which changed position. On laparotomy they found on the serous membrane of the entire enlarged and inflamed ileum numerous pseudo-polypous formations the majority of which were released and floated freely in the chylous ascites. The description of similar globular lesions of the lymphatic system was found in the literature only in accounts on post-mortem findings.
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