Small bowel obstruction caused by a medication bezoar: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-70

  Tatekawa, Yukihiro ^a,c   Nakatani, Katsunori ^a   Ishii, Hisashi ^a   Paku, Shuuichi ^a   Kasamatsu, Minoru ^a   Sekiya, Nao ^b   Nakano, Hiroshige ^c  

^a Saiseikai Gose Hospital   (Japan)

^b Sekiya Hospital   (Japan)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medication bezoar; small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; MAGNESIUM OXIDE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEZOAR; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE SURGERY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOGENESIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; BEZOARS; CATHARTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEUM; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MAGNESIUM OXIDE;

EID: 0030021755     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00311997     Document Type: Article

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