Acute appendicitis secondary to metastatic bronchogenic adenocarcinoma

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 778-780

  Gopez, Evelyn Valencerina ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a   Rosato, Ernest F ^a   Livolsi, Virginia A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; SMOKING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030783023     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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