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Strangulation Caused by a Small Bowel Epiploic Appendage: Report of a Case

While many recent cases of colonic epiploic appendage causing acute abdomen have been reported, such appendages of the small bowel are extremely rare. We present a 59-year-old woman in whom a small bowel epiploic appendage caused volvulus. She presented with abdominal pain and vomiting in the absenc...

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Autores principales: Nemoto, Hiroshi, Yoshizawa, Yasuo, Hibi, Kenji, Saito, Mitsuo, Ishibashi, Kazuyoshi, Sanada, Yutaka, Tate, Genshu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490891
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000135609