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Original communication| Volume 18, ISSUE 5, P556-560, November 1945

Small bowel stricture following irradiation therapy for carcinoma of the fundus uteri

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      Abstract

      A case is reported in which severe generalized small bowel damage, with intestinal obstruction due to adhesions, followed prolonged x-ray therapy for carcinoma of the fundus of the uterus.
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