PM&R
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 156-158 , February 2010

Metastatic Crohn Disease in a Spinal Cord Injury Patient Without Gastrointestinal Manifestation

  • Nicholas Ketchum, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Medical College of Wisconsin, 9200 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: N.K.
    • ,
  • Farhad Sepahpanah, MD

      Affiliations

    • Zablocki VAMC, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Spinal Cord Injury, Milwaukee, WI‡

Received 12 August 2009 ,Accepted 11 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.12.005

PM&R
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 156-158 , February 2010

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