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Jan 2012
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78. Bowel obstruction

SURGERY 101 TEAM
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In this episode Alyzee Sibtain discusses the diagnosis and management of patients with bowel obstruction. After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: recoginse the signs and symptoms of small bowel obstruction and large bowel obstruction and relate them to the underlying pathophysiology describe how to investigate the patient with bowel obstru ... Show More
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