Intestinal obstruction in pregnancy: A case of small bowel volvulus and review of the literature

American Surgeon

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1218-1221

  Biswas, Saptarshi ^a   Gray, Keith D ^a   Cotton, Bryan A ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 404 Medical Arts Building   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ELECTROLYTE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER INJURY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; NAUSEA; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREGNANCY; SPLENECTOMY; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOMITING; ANASTOMOSIS; JEJUNUM; JEJUNUM DISEASE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL STAPLING;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; JEJUNUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 33846936307     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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