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Florina Popa1, Madalina Grigoroiu2, Monica Elia Georgescu2
1Department of General Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu", Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Abstract:
The field of general surgery offers many different pathologies, cases, and situations for which the general surgeons should be competent in diagnosis as well as treatment and management, including operative intervention. Most situations are complicated by delayed admission to the hospital due to the embarrassment of patient and inability to obtain satisfactory anamnesis. This article reviews the use of computed tomography as a problem-solving tool in the identification, localization, and presurgical planning for extracting the rectal foreign object.
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