Strangulating small bowel obstruction due to an intrauterine contraceptive device

✍ Scribed by Diana Reinbach; Mr. N. D. Carr

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800740214

✦ Synopsis

The Curtis-Fitz-Hugh syndrome: D. Gatt and G. Jantet these patients become chronic sufferers. Treatment consists of a 4 week course of tetracycline. Finally, division of the prehepatic adhesions a t laparoscopy results in rapid relief of the right upper quadrant symptoms'.