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World J Gastroenterol. Sep 14, 2010; 16(34): 4363-4366
Published online Sep 14, 2010. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i34.4363
Published online Sep 14, 2010. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i34.4363
Therapy-refractory gastrointestinal motility disorder in a child with c-kit mutations
Christian Breuer, Jun Oh, Ertan Mayatepek, Rüdiger Adam, Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Jun Oh, Department of Pediatric Nephrology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
Gerhard J Molderings, Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Bonn, 53127 Bonn, Germany
Michael Schemann, Birgit Kuch, Department of Human Biology, Technische Universität München, 85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Rüdiger Adam, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Mannheim, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
Author contributions: Breuer C and Adam R contributed equally to this work and performed the research; Adam R, Oh J and Mayatepek E designed the research; Molderings GJ performed the mutational analysis of c-kit; Scheman M and Kuch B performed the immunohistochemistry; Breuer C wrote the paper.
Correspondence to: Dr. Christian Breuer, MD, Department of General Pediatrics, University Children’s Hospital, Moorenstr. 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. christian.breuer@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
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Received: April 6, 2010
Revised: June 4, 2010
Accepted: June 11, 2010
Published online: September 14, 2010
Revised: June 4, 2010
Accepted: June 11, 2010
Published online: September 14, 2010
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