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Nursing Home Patient with Constipation

Author: Marie-Clare Harris / Editor: Janet Skinner / Reviewer: Raja Shahid Ali / Codes: SLO2, SuC16, SuC4Published: 09/06/2020

An 82-year-old nursing home resident is brought into the emergency department with abdominal distension and a 2 day history of constipation. You arrange an abdominal radiograph:

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