Abdominal pain in a cirrhotic patient with ascites

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 865, 1997, Pages 751-752

  Touze, Ivan ^a   Asselah, Tarik ^a   Boruchowicz, Arnaud ^a   Paris, Jean Claude ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Incarcerated umbilical hernia; Paracentesis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

EID: 0030687479     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.865.751     Document Type: Article

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