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Acute gastric volvulus in a patient with trisomy 21

Acute gastric volvulus is a torsion of the stomach by more than 180° and a life-threatening condition. We present a 50-year-old male patient with acute abdominal pain who has Down syndrome/trisomy 21. Computed tomography showed a significant distended stomach with features of a severe gastric volvul...

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Autores principales: Arima, Kota, Hashimoto, Daisuke, Takata, Noboru, Doi, Yasuro, Yoshinaka, Ichiro, Harada, Kazunori, Baba, Hideo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26943373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-014-0005-1