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Nov 2024
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56. Readful! Small bowel obstruction wit...

Andrew Dixon & Frank Gaillard
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Radiology read to you! Andrew reads our small bowel obstruction article to abdominal radiologist Michael Hartung. Includes tips for CT reporting and how to recognise closed-loop obstructions. Plus, Frank and Andrew randomly chat about a prime number of cicadas!

Abdominal CT Essentials course  https://radiopaedia.org/courses/abdominal-ct-essentials

Radiopaedia's small bowel obstruction article ► https://radiopaedia.org/articles/small-bowel-obstruction

How to create a great radiology report ► https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rg.2020200020

Radiopaedia lecture collection ► https://radiopaedia.org/courses/lecture-collection

Get an All-Access Pass ► https://radiopaedia.org/courses/all-access-course-pass

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The Reading Room is a radiology podcast intended primarily for radiologists, radiology registrars and residents. 

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