Prospective Evaluation of Oral Gastrografin® in the Management of Postoperative Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction

Indian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-199

  Rahmani, Nasrin ^a   Mohammadpour, Reza Ali ^a   Khoshnood, Peyman ^a   Ahmadi, Amirhossein ^b   Assadpour, Sara ^c  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abdominal surgery; Adhesion; Gastrografin ; Hospital stay; Small bowel obstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879924847     PISSN: 09722068     EISSN: 09739793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12262-012-0479-7     Document Type: Article

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