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  • Title: [Digestive emergencies of elderly patients].
    Author: Closset J.
    Journal: Rev Med Brux; 1999 Dec; 20(6):491-3. PubMed ID: 10672772.
    Abstract:
    Evaluation of an elderly patient with acute abdominal conditions presents a challenge to the physician on account of the general poverty of history and clinical signs and the poor reliability of diagnostic procedures. The management of these pathologies are analyzed: cholecystitis, appendicitis, incarcerated hernia, small bowel obstruction, côlonic diverticular disease, intestinal ischemia and gastroduodenal ulcer. An early elective treatment of chronic pathologies like gallstones, hernias and intestinal ischemia trends to avoid complications.
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