Complete Currarino syndrome in an adult, presenting as a fecalith obstruction: Report of a case

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 303-306

  Colapinto, Michael N ^a   Vowinckel, Erika A M ^b   Colapinto, Nicholas D ^b  

^a NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANORECTAL MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BONE MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COMPLETE CURRARINO SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MENINGOCELE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SACRUM AGENESIS; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

ANAL CANAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; FECAL IMPACTION; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCELE; MIDDLE AGED; SACRUM; SYNDROME;

EID: 0041466176     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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