Gastrointestinal motility disorder assessment in systemic sclerosis
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Concise report Gastrointestinal motility disorder assessment in systemic sclerosis
Objectives. SSc is a clinically heterogeneous and generalized disease, characterized by thickness of the connective tissue of the skin and internal organs, such as the digestive tract, impairing gastrointestinal (GI) motility. Our aim is to evaluate retrospectively abnormalities of oesophageal motility, gastric emptying, oro-cecal transit time (OCTT) and small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SI...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1462-0324,1462-0332
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kes429