Use of the Gastrografin challenge in pat
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Khasawneh, Mohammad A.; Eiken, Patrick W.; Srvantstyan, Boris; Bannon, Michael P
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Article
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2013
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Background. The Gastrografin (GG) challenge was developed to predict the need for operative management in patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO). Although clinical trials have demonstrated that it is an effective diagnostic and therapeutic modality, these studies excluded patients with a histor