## Summary A decade ago intestinal obstruction was the commonest cause of general surgical abdominal emergency admissions in many tropical African countries. Recently, there has been a change in this pattern and acute appendicitis has become the major cause of emergency admissions. Most cases of i
Small bowel neoplasms in a tropical African population
β Scribed by Oluwole G. Ajao; A.A. Abioye
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0035-9203
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