Successful treatment of Cronkhite–Canada syndrome using anti-tumor necrosis factor antibody therapy

Endoscopy 2014; 46(S 01): E476-E477
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1377539

Cases and Techniques Library (CTL)

Daisuke Watanabe

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Makoto Ooi

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Namiko Hoshi

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Michitaka Kohashi

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Tomoo Yoshie

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Nobunao Ikehara

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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Masaru Yoshida

²Division of Metabolomics Research, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

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Emmy Yanagita

³Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Department of Pathology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

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Takashi Yamasaki

³Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Department of Pathology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

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Tomoo Itoh

³Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Department of Pathology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

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Takeshi Azuma

¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe,Japan

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