Caecal-diverticulitis: A rare differential diagnosis for right-sided lower abdominal pain

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 241-245

  Junge, Karsten ^a   Marx, A ^a   Peiper, Ch ^a   Klosterhalfen, B ^a   Schumpelick, V ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Caecal; Diagnosis; Diverticulitis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SURGICAL WARD; TELEPHONE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CECAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037854458     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-1318.2003.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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