Rice cake ileus - a rare and ethnic but important disease status in East-Southern Asia

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2737-2739

  Miura, Tomofumi ^a   Kimura, Naruhiro ^a   Nakamura, Junichiro ^a   Yamada, Satoshi ^a   Miura, Tsutomu ^a   Yanagi, Masahiko ^a   Ikeda, Yohei ^a   Takaki, Satoshi ^a   Tani, Yoshiko ^a   Ito, Takeshi ^a   Nishihara, Mamiko ^a   Takahashi, Toru ^b  

^a NAGAOKA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Uonuma Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ileus; Rice cake

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLIC; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD; HUMAN; ILEUS; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; RICE CAKE; RICE CAKE ILEUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; JAPAN; MALE; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORYZA SATIVA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEASONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81155135194     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.6152     Document Type: Article

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