Sometimes it really is appendicitis: Case of a CML patient with acute appendicitis

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 61-64

  Wallace, J ^a   Schwaitzberg, S ^b   Miller, K ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Leukemia; Typhlitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE;

EID: 0031694278     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050413     Document Type: Article

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