Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation

Acute gastric volvulus is an uncommon condition with severe repercussions if untreated in the acute presentation. We describe such a case. We assert that computed tomography (CT) should be the first line of investigation

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Autores principales: Singham, S, Sounness, B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21611054
http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.5.3.e18
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spelling pubmed-30977792011-05-24 Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation Singham, S Sounness, B Biomed Imaging Interv J Case Report Acute gastric volvulus is an uncommon condition with severe repercussions if untreated in the acute presentation. We describe such a case. We assert that computed tomography (CT) should be the first line of investigation Department of Biomedical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia 2009-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3097779/ /pubmed/21611054 http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.5.3.e18 Text en © 2009 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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Singham, S
Sounness, B
Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title_full Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title_fullStr Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title_full_unstemmed Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title_short Mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
title_sort mesenteroaxial volvulus in an adult: time is of the essence in acute presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21611054
http://dx.doi.org/10.2349/biij.5.3.e18
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