Ingested Foreign Bodies within the Appendix: A 100-Year Review of the Literature

Digestive Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 308-314

  Klingler, Paul J ^a,b,c   Seelig, Matthias H ^a   De Vault, Kenneth R ^a   Wetscher, Gerold J ^b   Floch, Neil R ^a   Branton, Susan A ^a   Hinder, Ronald A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Ingested foreign bodies

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; REVIEW;

APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS;

EID: 0032153336     PISSN: 02572753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016880     Document Type: Review

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