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Exam questionKROK 2Medicine · 2006

Plan radiography of the patient's abdominal cavity reveals some hemispherical lucent areas situated above distinct horizontal levels. What is the cause of such X-ray picture?

Answer options

  1. Price’s disease
  2. Meteorism
  3. Intestinal obstruction
  4. Perforative ulcer
  5. Cancer of large intestine
Correct answer

Intestinal obstruction

Explanation

Plan radiography of the patient's abdominal cavity reveals some hemispherical lucent areas situated above distinct horizontal levels. What is the cause of such X-ray picture?The hemispherical lucent area situated above distinct horizontal levels is an X-ray sign of intestinal obstruction.

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