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Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Delayed Intragastric Balloon Impaction

We report the case of a 25-year-old woman who presented with small bowel obstruction. Four years earlier, she underwent intragastric balloon insertion for treatment of obesity. The ballon had not been removed. Radiographs and CT scan showed radio-opaque device in the lower abdomen with small bowel o...

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Autor principal: Alnafisi, Bahiyah A.M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303553
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v3i4.176