CT findings in patients with small bowel obstruction due to phytobezoar

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 197-200

  Zissin, Rivka ^a,b   Osadchy, Alexandra ^a,b   Gutman, Vladimir ^a,b   Rathaus, Valeria ^a,b   Shapiro Feinberg, Myra ^a,b   Gayer, Gabriela ^b,c  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography (CT); Phytobezoar; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYTOBEZOAR; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH SURGERY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEZOARS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1642326812     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-003-0297-0     Document Type: Article

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