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Small bowel obstruction due to a paracecal hernia: computerized tomography diagnosis.

Osadchy A, Keidar A, Zissin R

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Meir hospital, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, 44281, Israel.

The role of computerized tomography (CT) in evaluating patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO) has been extensively described in the current literature. We report a rare case of SBO related to a surgically proven paracecal hernia, diagnosed on an abdominal CT scan preoperatively.

Published 2 September 2005 in Emerg Radiol, 11(4): 239-41.
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