Case of Interest: Delayed Bile Peritonitis following Abdominal Stab Wounds
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Management of stab wounds to the anterior abdominal wall.
The meeting of the Publication "Evidence Based Telemedicine - Trauma and Emergency Surgery" (TBE-CiTE), through literature review, selected three recent articles on the treatment of victims stab wounds to the abdominal wall. The first study looked at the role of computed tomography (CT) in the treatment of patients with stab wounds to the abdominal wall. The second examined the use of laparosco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-118-04-10