Epiploic appendagitis: An underestimated self-limiting acute abdominal condition;Appendagitis epiploica: Een onderbelichte zelflimiterende acute buikaandoening

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 1113-1118

  Van Breda Vriesman, A C ^a   De Mol Van Otterloo, J C A ^a   Puylaert, J B C M ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; REVIEW; VOMITING;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038306845     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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