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Acute gastric volvulus in a patient with trisomy 21

Acute gastric volvulus is a torsion of the stomach by more than 180° and a life-threatening condition. We present a 50-year-old male patient with acute abdominal pain who has Down syndrome/trisomy 21. Computed tomography showed a significant distended stomach with features of a severe gastric volvul...

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Published in:Surg Case Rep
Main Authors: Arima, Kota, Hashimoto, Daisuke, Takata, Noboru, Doi, Yasuro, Yoshinaka, Ichiro, Harada, Kazunori, Baba, Hideo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747932/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26943373
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-014-0005-1
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