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Intestinal obstruction following biliopancreatic diversion
Mark F Blake1, Amit J Dwivedi, Bruce Macpherson
1Department of Surgery, North Oakland Medical Centers, Pontiac, Missouri 48341, USA.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|May 14, 2003
Abstract:
In our opinion biliopancreatic diversion patients require particular care, especially in the emergency room setting. Due to the changes in anatomy following surgery, there are many changes in physiology. These changes result in different clinical manifestations than in the general population. Therefore, the combined use of clinical and laboratory findings, abdominal ultrasound and CT scan are invaluable assets in obesity surgery patients presenting with acute abdominal pain.