Transvaginal ultrasonographic identification of appendicitis in a setting of chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-74

  Scineaux, Tressa L ^a   Sills, E Scott ^a,b   Perloe, Mark ^a   Daly, John P ^a   Schattman, Glenn L ^a  

^a Georgia Reproductive Specialists ^*

^b Georgia Reproductive Specialists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; VAGINA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PELVIC PAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VAGINA;

EID: 0035220169     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200194010-00015     Document Type: Article

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