Foreign body ingestion in prisoners - The Belfast experience

Ulster Medical Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-114

  Bisharat, May ^a   O'Donnell, Mark E ^a,b,c   Gibson, Niall ^a   Mitchell, Michael ^a   Refsum, Sigi R ^a   Carey, P Declan ^a   Spence, Roy A J ^a,b   Lee, Jack ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; CROHN DISEASE; DECREASED APPETITE; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTESTINE SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PRISONER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN IRELAND; PRISONERS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 44449169936     PISSN: 00416193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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