Ingested medications reteined in the colon;Ingesti medicamentosi ritenuti nel colon: Descrizione di un caso insolito

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 104, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 490-493

  Carrafiello, Gianpaolo ^a,c   Intotero, Marcello ^a   Vimercati, Franco ^b   Corso, Rocco ^a   Vanzulli, Angelo ^a  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b Macedonio Melloni Hospital   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIC; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INGESTION; INTESTINE CANCER; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SUPINE POSITION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 0036873673     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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