Original Article

Air-Fluid Obstruction of the Colon

Authors: A. O. SINGLETON, JR., M.D., McCLURE WILSON, M.D.

Abstract

The authors call attention to a condition encountered upon occasion in the aged, and especially in aged psychotic patients. This is a clinical picture of colonic obstruction as a result of air-fluid block in an atonic bowel, or even merely an adynamic state as the result of the latter condition.

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