Inflammatory cecal masses in patients presenting with appendicitis

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 713-716

  Poon, Ronnie Tung Ping ^a   Chu, Kin Wah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON RESECTION; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PHLEGMON; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSCESS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CARCINOMA; CECAL DISEASES; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CECUM; CELLULITIS; COLECTOMY; DECISION MAKING; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ILEUM; INFLAMMATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 0032970765     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012374     Document Type: Article

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