Bowel perforation caused by swallowed chicken bones - A case series

Ulster Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-38

  Akhtar, S ^a   McElvanna, N ^a   Gardiner, Keith R ^a   Irwin, S T ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHICKENS; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE;

EID: 33846524957     PISSN: 00416193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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