Rethinking the watchful waiting approach to the swallowed coin problem

Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 698-699

  Gomez, Ruben ^a   Basson, Marc D ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEZOAR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STOMACH SURGERY; STOMACH ULCER; SWALLOWING;

EID: 0038458924     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2003.14     Document Type: Article

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