Clinical diagnosis imaging in intestinal obstruction
J. Sierra Leone Med. Dent. Assoc
; 5(3): 183-87, 1990.
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ABSTRACT
In these days of sophisticated technology; the diagnosis of intestinal obsruction (and pseudo-obstruction) still depends almost entirely on plain X-rays and barium studies. Although rigid routines (and old myths) interfere with the interpretation of plain X-ray; nevertheless; the first step in intestinal obstruction is a series of plain X-rays without contrast. An erect; lateral left decubitus (2) supine and chest X-ray (3); (4); should be obtained because of several reasons. One of these reasons is the fact that a chest X-ray is necessary in all plain X-ray series for obstruction; in order not to be trapped into a wrong diagnosis of mechanical small bowel obstruction in pneumonia (not even only those limited to the lower lobes) and this; especially in aging adults and young children
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Main subject:
Diagnostic Imaging
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Intestinal Obstruction
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Language:
English
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J. Sierra Leone Med. Dent. Assoc
Year:
1990
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Article
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