Management of ingested foreign bodies. How justifiable is a waiting policy?

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-287

  Pavlidis, Theodoros E ^a   Marakis, Georgios N ^a   Triantafyllou, Apostolos ^a   Psarras, Kyriakos ^a   Kontoulis, Theodoros M ^a   Sakantamis, Athanasios K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Emergency; Endoscopy; Foreign body; Ingestion

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; DENTURE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; INGESTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; WAITING ROOM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56149097410     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31816b78f5     Document Type: Article

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