J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 87(12): 1569-1575, 1986

Case report

EXPERIMENCE OF FAMILIAL OCCURRENCE OF CIIP AND REVIEW OF LITERATURES IN JAPAN

Department of Emergency Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

Kunichi Kido, Chiiho Fujii, Kohji Tokuda, Masayoshi Nishina, Nobukatsu Takasu, Kaoru Ohtsuka, Akitsugu Kohama

Recurrent intestinal obstruction for which no underlying cause can be found has been termed “chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction (CIIP)" by Maldonado et al. Some clinical features of CIIP have been pointed out in literatures. More often than not, CIIP often shows hereditary occurrence.
The authors have summed up twenty-one cases of CIIP reported till 1984 in Japan, In these cases, only one familial occurrence has been reported excluding our own. Our cases were a young woman and her father and they showed clinical features of CIIP and they might have hereditary factors.

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