Infrared spectrophotometry of intraluminal meconium calculi in a neonate with imperforate anus and rectourethral fistula

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1173-1176

  Shimotake, Takashi ^a   Higuchi, Kohji ^a   Tsuda, Tomoki ^a   Aoi, Shigeyoshi ^a   Iwai, Naomi ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anorectal malformations; Calcified meconium; Infrared spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM HYDROGEN URATE; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIC ACID; URIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DUODENOSTOMY; DUODENUM STENOSIS; FISTULA; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MECONIUM; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOURETHRAL FISTULA; STONE FORMATION; URETHROGRAPHY;

ANUS, IMPERFORATE; CALCULI; COLON; COLONIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MECONIUM; RECTAL FISTULA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; URETHRAL DISEASES; URINARY FISTULA;

EID: 33744906038     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.01.067     Document Type: Article

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