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Small-bowel obstruction after conservative treatment of gastric bezoar
Canadian Journal of Surgery. Journal Canadien De Chirurgie
|September 1, 1986
Abstract:
Gastric bezoar is an uncommon complication of gastric procedures. Increasingly it is managed by pharmacologic or endoscopic manipulations. The risk of intestinal obstruction after nonsurgical therapy is illustrated by two cases that were successfully managed without resorting to enterotomy.