Pneumomediastinum: Retroperitoneal pathway

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 579-582

  Feldman, Morton G ^a   Lustberg, Herb ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PNEUMOMEDIASTINUM; PNEUMORETROPERITONEUM; RADIOGRAPHY; SIGMOID; SUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COLON, SIGMOID; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROPNEUMOPERITONEUM; SUCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033203275     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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