Gastric wall weakening resulting in separate perforations in a patient with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 807-808

  Dinan, David ^a   Levine, Marc S ^a   Gordon, Andrew R ^a   Rubesin, Stephen E ^a   Rombeau, John L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH INTUBATION; STOMACH PERFORATION; STOMACH WALL; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 0041508686     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.181.3.1810807     Document Type: Article

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