Improving the management of acute adhesive small bowel obstruction with CT-scan and water-soluble contrast medium: A prospective study

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1869-1876

  Trésallet, Christophe ^a   Lebreton, Nicolas ^a   Royer, Benoît ^a   Leyre, Pierre ^a   Godiris Petit, Gaelle ^a   Menegaux, Fabrice ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Adhesive small bowel obstruction; C scan; Gastrografin ; Prospective study; Surgery

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DIET; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FILM; HUMAN; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LIQUID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE REMOVAL; VASCULARIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75349102340     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/DCR.0b013e3181b35c06     Document Type: Article

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