Stuck redivac drain: To open or not to open? A case report

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-224

  Pagoti, Ravikanth ^a   Arshad, Ilyas ^a   Schneider, Crispin ^a  

^a KING S MILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGECTOMY; STUCK REDIVAC DRAIN; SUCTION DRAINAGE;

ADULT; COLON, DESCENDING; DEVICE REMOVAL; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; SUCTION;

EID: 41149168608     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00849.x     Document Type: Article

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