Scleroderma with intestinal involvement: fatal in two of a kindred.
The unusual occurrence is reported of scleroderma with intestinal involvement in a 59 year old women and her 19 year old nephew. Both died from causes related to this bowel disease.
D000328:Adult; D003248:Constipation / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D014839:Vomiting / Q000209:etiology