The presentation, operative management and jinal diagnosis were reviewed in 28 patients with AIDS (27 men and one woman) who underwent emergency laparotom-v. On clinical and radiological examination, six patients showed features of toxic megacolon, five patients had small bowel obstruction, six pati
Emergency laparotomy in patients with AIDS
โ Scribed by S. D. Wexner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 79
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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