Taxonomy and imaging spectrum of small bowel obstruction after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-128

  Sunnapwar, Abhijit ^a   Sandrasegaran, Kumaresan ^b   Menias, Christine O ^c   Lockhart, Mark ^d   Chintapalli, Kedar N ^a   Prasad, Srinivasa R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; CT; Hernias; Management; Postoperative complications; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; FAT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLEEDING; BLOATING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DILATATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSIS; DIET; DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DUODENUM; EDEMA; ENTEROPATHY; ENTEROSTOMY; FASCIA; FECES; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEMATOMA; HERNIA STRANGULATION; HERNIOPLASTY; HIATUS HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; IMAGING; INCIDENCE; INDIGESTION; INTERNAL HERNIA; INTESTINE INFARCTION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE LOOP; INTESTINE PERFUSION; INTESTINE PRESSURE; INTESTINE STENOSIS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; JEJUNOSTOMY; JEJUNUM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIGAMENT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MESENTERY; MESENTERY BLOOD VESSEL; MESOCOLIC WINDOW STENOSIS; MESOCOLON; MORBIDITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; OBESITY; OMENTUM; PANCREAS; PERIOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PERISTALSIS; PERITONEUM; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PETERSEN HERNIA; PHYTOBEZOAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTICEMIA; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STENOSIS; STOMA; STOMACH; STOMACH ABSORPTION; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH POUCH; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TACHYCARDIA; TAXONOMY; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSVERSE COLON; TROCAR; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LAPAROSCOPY; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74749085425     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2840     Document Type: Review

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