Intestinal lymphangiectasia and protein losing enteropathy responding to small bowel resection
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Behçet disease and protein-losing enteropathy due to intestinal lymphangiectasia.
We report an unusual case of a patient with Behçet's disease that developed protein-losing enteropathy due to intestinal lymphangiectasia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.78.2.194