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Successful treatment of prokinetic-resistant intestinal pseudo-obstruction and pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis in systemic sclerosis with metronidazole

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  1. Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, The Tazuke-Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, 2-4-20 Ohgimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-8480, Japan

    Masaaki Fujita, Yumiko Nakano & Masato Yagita

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Fujita, M., Nakano, Y. & Yagita, M. Successful treatment of prokinetic-resistant intestinal pseudo-obstruction and pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis in systemic sclerosis with metronidazole. Rheumatol Int 37, 1213–1215 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-017-3668-7

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