The aluminum beverage tab and a soldier with chronic abdominal pain

Since its introduction in the 1960s, the aluminum pull-tab has been an uncommon cause of aspiration and intestinal obstruction. In many cases, the inability to visualize aluminum on imaging studies delayed diagnosis and therapy or missed the foreign body altogether. Early reports of injury secondary...

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Main Authors: Cole E. Ogrydziak, BS, John W. Kirkland, BS, Edward M. Falta, MD, FACS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Radiology Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043320305616