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The Acute Abdomen — Abscesses, Hematomas, and Postoperative Collections

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Abstract

Emergency and postoperative ultrasonography has a reputation for difficulty that is not always unjustified. It is performed on patients who may have a reflex ileus or a bowel distended with gas. Thus intercostal views must be utilized to the maximum in order to examine the upper abdomen reasonably extensively with a small sector scanning probe head.

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Weill, F.S. (1990). The Acute Abdomen — Abscesses, Hematomas, and Postoperative Collections. In: Ultrasound Diagnosis of Digestive Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97095-5_29

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