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Acute on Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction as a Cause of Death in a Previously Healthy Twenty-Year-Old Male

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

    Joshua T. Evans MD, Mark H. Delegge MD, Christopher Lawrence MD & David Lewin MD

  2. P.O. Box 250623, Room #807 Clinical Sciences Building, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29425, USA

    Joshua T. Evans MD

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Evans, J.T., Delegge, M.H., Lawrence, C. et al. Acute on Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction as a Cause of Death in a Previously Healthy Twenty-Year-Old Male. Dig Dis Sci 51, 647–651 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-006-3186-z

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