Intussusception of a normal appendix: How to avoid a right hemicolectomy

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1172, 2003, Pages

  Flint, Richard ^a   Wright, Tim ^a  

^a TARANAKI BASE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM CANCER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CECUM DISEASE; CECUM TUMOR; COLON RESECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CECAL DISEASES; CECAL NEOPLASMS; COLECTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALE;

EID: 0038622896     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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