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Saturday, 30 November 2013

Abdominal emergencies in children - free paper

Please access this link to read the full text paper on "Contemporary management of acute abdominal emergencies in infants and children" just published in the BJS and free to access online.

The paper deals with update info on acute appendicitis, hernia, intestinal malrotation and/or strangulation, pyloric stenosis, intussusception and a handful of other conditions that may present to the general surgeon on call.

Illustration of malrotation, from the paper by van Heurn and colleagues in the BJS. Source: 
British Journal of Surgery 29 NOV 2013 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.9335
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.9335/full#bjs9335-fig-0001

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