Meckel's diverticulitis secondary to carcinoid tumor: An unusual presentation of the acute abdomen in an adult

Current Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 301-303

  Carpenter, Scott S ^a   Grillis, Michael E ^b  

^a DES MOINES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Carcinoid tumor; Meckel's diverticulitis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; CARCINOID TUMOR; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037408211     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7944(02)00745-6     Document Type: Article

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