Non-invasive measurement of small-bowel motility by MRI after abdominal surgery [8]

Gut

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1023-1025

  Patak, Michael A ^a,b   Froehlich, Johannes M ^b   Von Weymarn, Constantin ^b   Breitenstein, Stefan ^c   Zollikofer, Christoph L ^b   Wentz, Klaus Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL WINTERTHUR   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LETTER; MANOMETRY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SIGMOIDECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTESTINE, LARGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34347239008     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2007.120816     Document Type: Letter

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