Rectal bezoars due to pumpkin seeds

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-55

  Mirza, Mohammad Salman ^a   Al Wahibi, Khalifa ^a   Baloch, Shafiq ^a   Al Qadhi, Hani ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BEZOAR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLIC; CONSTIPATION; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LAVAGE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALE; PLANT SEED; PUMPKIN; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; FECES IMPACTION; RECTUM; SQUASH;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BEZOARS; CHILD; CUCURBITA; FECAL IMPACTION; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; RECTUM; SEEDS;

EID: 64549102952     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.080107     Document Type: Article

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