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Images in emergency medicine
Importance of magnifying CT images to detect minute free air in patients with blunt bowel injury
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- bowel injury
- perforation
- CT
- free air
- abdomen- non trauma
- gastro-intestinal
- cardiac care
- diagnosis
- imaging
- CT/MRI
- trauma
A 17-year-old man was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. On arrival at hospital his physiological findings showed abdominal tenderness and weak bowel sounds. A plain abdominal CT scan was performed on …
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