Rectal blowout by personal watercraft water jet: Case report and review of literature

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-388

  Philpott, Jonathan M ^a   Ng, Peter C ^a   Wixon, Christopher L ^a   Haisch, Carl E ^a   Hoey, Brian A ^a   Kiesnowski, Brian ^a   Crombie, Courtney H ^a   Walker, Jamie S ^a   Meade, Paul G ^a   Foil, M Beth ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ANORECTAL PRESSURE; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM INJURY; SPORT INJURY;

EID: 0032769151     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199908000-00031     Document Type: Article

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