Chagasic enteropathy Enteropatia chagásica

Involvement of the hollow organs of the digestive apparatus can occur in patients in the chronic phase of Chagas' disease. The basic mechanism is destruction of neurons of the enteric nervous system. Whereas megaesophagus and megacolon are the most notable and most extensively studied expressio...

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Main Author: Ulysses G. Meneghelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2004-06-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822004000300012