Jejuno-ileal atresia in identical twins: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 438-440

  Matsumoto, Yutaro ^a   Komatsu, Kazuhisa ^a   Tabata, Tosiharu ^a  

^a Iwaki Kyoritsu General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Identical twins; Intestinal atresia; Jejuno ileal atresia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ILEUM; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE SURGERY; JEJUNUM; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ABNORMALITIES; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASES IN TWINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILEUM; INFANT, NEWBORN; JEJUNUM; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034126412     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950050619     Document Type: Article

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