A 73-Year-Old Man with Long-Term Immobility Presenting with Abdominal Pain
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1 Departments of Emergency and Surgery, Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, Trauma Center, Maggiore Hospital–Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy, 2 Department of Radiology, Maggiore Hospital–Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy, 3 Department of Emergency and Transplant Surgery, S. Orsola Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 4 Addington Hospital, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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