Value of water-soluble contrast (meglumine amidotrizoate) in the diagnosis and management of small bowel obstruction

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1290-1294

  Salamah, Saleh Moh'D Al ^a,b   Fahim, Fraz ^a   Mirza, Shaukat Mahmood ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMAN; MALE; PERITONITIS; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SOLUBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746079983     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0409-y     Document Type: Article

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