Reassessment of barium radiographic examination in diagnosing gastrointestinal diseases
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Ultrasound examination of gastrointestinal tract diseases.
With recent technical advances, increasing use of sonography in the initial evaluation of patients with abdominal disease may allow the detection of unexpected tumor within the abdominal cavity. Easiness of sonographic detection of bowel pathology, purposely or unexpectedly, warrants the inclusion of bowel loops during ultrasound examination when a patient complains of symptoms indicating disea...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v5.i5.383