Foreign body causing chronic subacute small bowel obstruction: An unusual case from Harare Hospital

Central African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-18

  Da Silva, E J ^a   Golakai, V K ^a,b  

^a UNIV OF ZIMBABWE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Zimbabwe)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; ILEUM; ILEUM DISEASE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; RADIOGRAPHY; ZIMBABWE;

AGED; BONE AND BONES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEUM; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031633954     PISSN: 00089176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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