Acute appendicitis immediately after colonoscopy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2239-2240

  Hirata, Keiji ^a   Noguchi, Junya ^a   Yoshikawa, Ichiro ^a   Tabaru, Akinari ^a   Nagata, Naoki ^a   Murata, Ikuo ^a   Itoh, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0029821738     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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