title: Metrizamide in neonatal and childhood small bowel obstruction.
abstract: Metrizamide (Amipaque) has been used to image the bowel of four neonates and one older child with possible bowel obstruction. In each case, barium and hypertonic water-soluble agents, such as Gastrografin and Hypaque, were contraindicated. In each case, the metrizamide study provided unique formation altering the management of the patient. Metrizamide provides a new method of evaluating selected difficult cases of suspected bowel obstruction in the newborn, and in older children it may help to distinguish between postoperative ileus and mechanical obstruction.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000151:congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008793:Metrizamide; D011859:Radiography
chemical_list: D008793:Metrizamide