Buerger's disease presenting as acute small bowel ischemia.
The case of a young man with an unusual presentation of thromboangiitis obliterans with ischemia of the small bowel, 2 years before peripheral vascular disease of the extremities was clinically expressed, is reported.
Broide
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Institute of Gastroenterology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Scapa
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Witz
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Abramowich
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Eshchar
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D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000098:blood supply*; D007511:Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007583:Jejunum / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D008642:Mesenteric Veins / Q000473:pathology; D009336:Necrosis; D013919:Thromboangiitis Obliterans / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology