Water-soluble contrast study predicts the need for early surgery in adhesive small bowel obstruction

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1692-1694

  Chen, S C ^a   Lin, F Y ^a   Lee, P H ^a   Yu, S C ^a   Wang, S M ^a   Chang, K J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; MONOMERIC IONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TIME;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031769230     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2168.1998.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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