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Why i still use barium for intussusception

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“Doctors are always changing their opinions, they always have some new fad” (David Lloyd George).

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Poznanski, A.K. Why i still use barium for intussusception. Pediatr Radiol 25, 92–93 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02010313

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