The first report of successful nasogastric coca-cola lavage treatment for bitter persimmon phytobezoars in Japan [6]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1662-1663

  Kato, Hideaki ^a   Nakamura, Makoto ^a   Orito, Etsuro ^b   Ueda, Ryuzo ^b   Mizokami, Masashi ^b  

^a Toyokawa City Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; BITTER TASTE; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISSOLUTION; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; JAPAN; LETTER; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PERSIMMON; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYTOBEZOAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH LAVAGE;

EID: 0038795087     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.07563.x     Document Type: Letter

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