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Two boys developed bile-stained vomiting shortly after being involved in significant right-sided blunt trauma and sustaining fractured right femurs. Both had intestinal volvulus and both had a history of bile-stained vomiting in infancy, which had been investigated and interpreted as normal.
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Accepted: 8 May 1997
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Penington, E., Ford, W. Intestinal volvulus and right-sided blunt trauma: consequence or coincidence?. Pediatr Surg Int 13, 363–364 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050340
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003830050340