title: [X-ray characteristics of acute intestinal obstruction in middle-aged and elderly patients].
abstract: The authors presented clinical and x-ray findings of 188 patients with mechanical intestinal obstruction (92 of them were middle-aged and advanced in years and 96 were under 60). A combined program of x-ray examination included 3 stages: panoramic polypositional roentgenography of the chest and abdominal cavity, dynamic x-ray control over the state of the abdominal cavity, and contrast study of the G.I. tract. A distinctive feature of the x-ray symptomatology of intestinal obstruction in middle-aged and old patients was the absence of classical x-ray symptoms in some cases during panoramic roentgenography of the abdominal cavity. In patients over 60, x-ray symptomatology was characterized by marked colon distension and intestinal distension of various degree in 77.1%
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Shcherbatenko
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Selina
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Morozova
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Gorodetskaia
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Rentgenologicheskie osobennosti ostroĭ kishechnoĭ neprokhodimosti u lits pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta.