Caecal amoeboma simulating malignant neoplasia, ileocaecal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 116-117

  Kamran Majeed, S ^a   Ghazanfar, Aamir ^a   Ashraf, Junaid ^a  

^a KRL Hospital   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Amoeboma; Right hemicolectomy; Right iliac fossa

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM CARCINOMA; CECUM DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROHN DISEASE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE SURGERY; INTESTINE TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; CECAL DISEASES; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS, GASTROINTESTINAL;

EID: 0038070303     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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