Images in paediatrics: A Rapunzel with a difference

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 264-

  Ramadan, N ^a   Pandya, N A ^a   Bhaduri, B ^a  

^a MAIDSTONE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPUNZEL SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE; SYMPTOM; SYNDROME; TRICHOBEZOAR; TRICHOTILLOMANIA; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BEZOAR; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DUODENUM; METHODOLOGY; STOMACH;

BARIUM SULFATE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; ENEMA;

BARIUM SULFATE; BEZOARS; CHILD; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; STOMACH; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 0037374370     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.88.3.264     Document Type: Article

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