A 73-year-old man with long-term immobility presenting with abdominal pain

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Di Saverio, Salomone ^a   Tugnoli, Gregorio ^a   Orlandi, Paolo Emilio ^a   Casali, Marco ^a   Catena, Fausto ^b   Biscardi, Andrea ^a   Pillay, Omeshnie ^c   Baldoni, Franco ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ADDINGTON HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETHANECHOL; BISACODYL; CASCARA SAGRADA; CERULETIDE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DANTRON; DOCUSATE CALCIUM; DOCUSATE SODIUM; DOMPERIDONE; ELECTROLYTE; LACTULOSE; LAXATIVE; LUBIPROSTONE; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NALOXONE; NEOSTIGMINE; OCTREOTIDE; OPIATE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; POLOXAMER; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SENNA EXTRACT; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SORBITOL; TEGASEROD; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON LAVAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FECES IMPACTION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; OGILVIE SYNDROME; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; REHYDRATION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH PARESIS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYPOKINESIA; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68049137566     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000092     Document Type: Article

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