Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 12
Letter to the Editor
Acute colonic complications in a patient with Chagas disease

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4193/2016

Carmen Lara Romero, Blanca Ferreiro Argüelles, Eduardo Romero Pérez,

Abstract
We present the case of a young bolivian woman who suffered two acute and impressive colonic complications due to a Chagasic megacolon.
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Publication history

Received: 05/01/2016

Accepted: 18/03/2016

Online First: 29/04/2016

Published: 30/11/2016

Article revision time: 65 days

Article Online First time: 115 days

Article editing time: 330 days


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