Fish bone perforation mimicking colon cancer: A case report.
Most patients who ingest fish bones do not develop any complications. The small proportion of patients who do complicate, present with non-specific symptoms. A 64-year-old female patient presented with a 2-month history of abdominal pain. Following clinical evaluation and computed tomography scan of...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Radiology Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 5 |
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| Formato: | case study diagnostic images pictorial Journal Article |
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African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD
2020
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