A case report of a giant rectal adenoma causing secretory diarrhea and acute renal failure: McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome

BACKGROUND: The McKittrick-Wheelock syndrome is a rare depletion syndrome caused by a secretory villous adenoma or a carcinoma of the rectosigmoid tract. An aggressive hydroelectrolyte rebalancing is often needed, and curative treatment is obtained only with complete removal of the lesion, by endosc...

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Autores principales: Agnes, Annamaria, Novelli, Domenico, Doglietto, Giovanni Battista, Papa, Valerio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27267899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0153-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27267899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-016-0153-2

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