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I had a ct without contrast, is it possible to miss a bowel obstruction because contrast wasnt used?
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Possibly: If the scan results were questionable the repeat. Here a good article for your perusal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14620716
Answered 6/7/2018
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