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Bowel obstruction: a narrative review for all physicians

Small and large bowel obstructions are responsible for approximately 15% of hospital admissions for acute abdominal pain in the USA and ~ 20% of cases needing acute surgical care. Starting from the analysis of a common clinical problem, we want to guide primary care physicians in the initial managem...

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Autores principales: Catena, Fausto, De Simone, Belinda, Coccolini, Federico, Di Saverio, Salomone, Sartelli, Massimo, Ansaloni, Luca
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6489175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31168315
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-019-0240-7
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author Catena, Fausto
De Simone, Belinda
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description Small and large bowel obstructions are responsible for approximately 15% of hospital admissions for acute abdominal pain in the USA and ~ 20% of cases needing acute surgical care. Starting from the analysis of a common clinical problem, we want to guide primary care physicians in the initial management of a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain associated with intestinal obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-64891752019-06-05 Bowel obstruction: a narrative review for all physicians Catena, Fausto De Simone, Belinda Coccolini, Federico Di Saverio, Salomone Sartelli, Massimo Ansaloni, Luca World J Emerg Surg Review Small and large bowel obstructions are responsible for approximately 15% of hospital admissions for acute abdominal pain in the USA and ~ 20% of cases needing acute surgical care. Starting from the analysis of a common clinical problem, we want to guide primary care physicians in the initial management of a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain associated with intestinal obstruction. BioMed Central 2019-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6489175/ /pubmed/31168315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-019-0240-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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