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BMJ Case Reports 2009; doi:10.1136/bcr.08.2008.0839
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An acute abdomen pain

  1. Rakesh Biswas1,
  2. Omar Irfan1,
  3. Manoj Sharma1,
  4. Gyanendra Khare1,
  5. Rajesh Gupta2,
  6. Suraj Jain3,
  7. Navneet Mishra4
  1. 1
    People’s College of Medical Sciences, Medicine, Bhanpur Bypass Road, Bhopal, 462010, India
  2. 2
    People’s College of Medical Sciences, Radiology, Bhanpur Bypass road, Bhopal, 462010, India
  3. 3
    People’s College of Medical Sciences, Bhanpur Bypass Road, Bhopal, 462010, India
  4. 4
    People’s College of Medical Sciences, Surgery, Bhanpur Bypass Road, Bhopal, 462010, India
  1. rakesh7biswas{at}gmail.com
  • Published 26 February 2009

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A 61-year-old retired farmer started experiencing severe pain in his abdomen for the last 2 weeks along with abdominal distension, vomiting and inability to pass flatus or faeces. He was investigated on admission to our casualty and an abdominal x ray revealed classical features of intestinal obstruction (fig 1). A CT of the abdomen done subsequently confirmed the diagnosis …

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