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Successful Nonoperative Management (NOM) in Elderly Patients with Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO): a Cross-Sectional Analysis

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  1. Fausto Rosa and Marcello Covino contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Fausto Rosa, Marcello Covino, Giuseppe Quero, Gabriele Sganga & Sergio Alfieri

  2. Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, IRCCS, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Fausto Rosa, Francesco Franceschi & Gabriele Sganga

  3. Emergency Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Marcello Covino & Francesco Franceschi

  4. Digestive Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

    Carlo Alberto Schena, Giuseppe Quero & Sergio Alfieri

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Contributions

Study conception and design: Rosa, Covino, Schena, Franceschi, and Alfieri. Acquisition of data: Rosa, Covino, and Quero. Analysis and interpretation of data: Rosa, Covino, Sganga, Franceschi, and Alfieri. Drafting of manuscript: Rosa, Covino, Schena, Quero, Sganga, Franceschi, and Alfieri. Critical revision: Rosa, Covino, Quero, Schena, Sganga, Franceschi, and Alfieri.

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Rosa, F., Covino, M., Schena, C.A. et al. Successful Nonoperative Management (NOM) in Elderly Patients with Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO): a Cross-Sectional Analysis. J Gastrointest Surg 27, 2218–2222 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-023-05771-0

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