Small bowel infarction complicating rectus sheath haematoma in an anticoagulated patient

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Dineen, Robert A ^a   Lewis, Nina R ^b   Altaf, Nishath ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowel infarction; Rectus sheath haematoma

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE INFARCTION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECTUS SHEATH HEMATOMA;

AGED; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; ISCHEMIA; MUSCULAR DISEASES; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 26944494151     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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