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Open Access 01-12-2011 | Review

Small bowel emergency surgery: literature's review

Authors: Carlo Vallicelli, Federico Coccolini, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Giulia Montori, Salomone Di Saverio, Antonio D Pinna

Published in: World Journal of Emergency Surgery | Issue 1/2011

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Abstract

Emergency surgery of the small bowel represents a challenge for the surgeon, in the third millennium as well. There is a wide number of pathologies which involve the small bowel. The present review, by analyzing the recent and past literature, resumes the more commons. The aim of the present review is to provide the main indications to face the principal pathologies an emergency surgeon has to face with during his daily activity.
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Metadata
Title
Small bowel emergency surgery: literature's review
Authors
Carlo Vallicelli
Federico Coccolini
Fausto Catena
Luca Ansaloni
Giulia Montori
Salomone Di Saverio
Antonio D Pinna
Publication date
01-12-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
World Journal of Emergency Surgery / Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1749-7922
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-1

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