Intestinal obstruction in an adolescent female

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 847, 1996, Pages 307-308

  Kumar, Anand ^a   Gautam, Amitabh ^a   Chaturvedi, Sunanda ^a   Gupta, Saroj ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BARIUM ENEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; NEUROFIBROMA; NOTE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0029993299     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.72.847.307     Document Type: Note

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