Water soluble, small bowel follow through for adhesive small bowel obstruction
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Adhesive small bowel obstruction: where do we stand now?
Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is one of the most frequently encountered disorders in Emergency Surgery Departments worldwide without negligible hospital admission rates and social costs (1,2). Notwithstanding significant improvements in techniques and materials, intra-abdominal adhesions following abdominal surgery still represent a major unsolved and debated issue harbouring challeng...
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PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to describe the CT features of the small bowel feces sign and to determine its value as a positive criteria of non-severity in adhesive small bowel obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective study of adhesive small bowel obstructions diagnosed by CT from January 2001 to December 2002. All CT examinations featuring a small bowel feces s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.037994