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Sigmoid colon endometriotic mass

A rare cause of complete large bowel obstruction

Hamad H. Al-Qahtani, Haitham Alfalah, Reem A. Al-Salamah and Adel A. Elshair
Saudi Medical Journal May 2015, 36 (5) 630-633; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.11268
Hamad H. Al-Qahtani
From the Department of Surgery (Al-Qahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Department of Surgery (Elshair, Alfalah), King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, and the Department of Surgery (Al-Salamah), College of Medicine, Al-Qassim University, Al-Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Haitham Alfalah
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Reem A. Al-Salamah
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vol. 36 no. 5 630-633
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.11268
PubMed 
25935187

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received January 18, 2015
  • Accepted March 16, 2015
  • Published online May 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hamad H. Al-Qahtani, CABS, FRCS⇑,
  2. Haitham Alfalah, MBBS, MD,
  3. Reem A. Al-Salamah, MBBS and
  4. Adel A. Elshair, CABS, FRCS
  1. From the Department of Surgery (Al-Qahtani), College of Medicine, King Saud University, Department of Surgery (Elshair, Alfalah), King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, and the Department of Surgery (Al-Salamah), College of Medicine, Al-Qassim University, Al-Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hamad H. Al-Qahtani, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: hamad_qah{at}hotmail.com
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