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Recent findings in diagnostics provide new insights

Published in Medical Imaging Week, April 29th, 2006

Diagnostics research advances have been reported from the United States.

Study 1: Morbid obesity with small bowel obstruction after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass are best treated by laparoscopic surgery.

According to recent research from the United States, "The resultant derangement of the normal gastrointestinal anatomy after a gastric bypass procedure increases the incidence of, and level of difficulty diagnosing, partial small bowel obstruction (SBO) in morbidly obese patients. We evaluated the diagnostic methods for partial SBO and the clinical characteristics according to the time after initial operation."

M.Y. Cho and colleagues...

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