Rectal 'oven mitt': The importance of considering a serious underlying injury

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-33

  Losanoff, Julian E ^a   Kjossev, Kirien T ^a  

^a MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Contrast enema; Criminal violence; Extraperitoneal rectal injury; Fecal stream diversion; Oven mitt; Presacral drainage; Rectal foreign body; Transanal insertion

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOREIGN BODY; GLOVE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM INJURY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; EMERGENCIES; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; RECTUM;

EID: 0032962496     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-4679(98)00116-4     Document Type: Article

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