CT scan findings do not predict outcome of nonoperative management in small bowel obstruction: Retrospective analysis of 108 consecutive patients

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue , 2016, Pages 88-91

  Pricolo, Victor E ^a   Curley, Filomena ^a  

^a Southcoast Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel obstruction; Computed tomography; Small bowel; Surgical therapy

Indexed keywords

ADHESION SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SMALL INTESTINE; TISSUE ADHESION; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960192399     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: 17439159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2016.01.033     Document Type: Article

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