Small bowel obstruction - The water-soluble follow-through revisited

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 393-397

  Brochwicz Lewinski, M J ^a   Paterson Brown, S ^a   Murchison, John T ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast media; Intestines; Obstruction; Radiography; Stenosis

Indexed keywords

GASTROMIRO; IOPAMIDOL;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0038406195     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9260(02)00538-X     Document Type: Article

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