Granulomatous appendicitis

Surgeon

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 286-289

  Tucker, O N ^a   Healy, V ^a   Jeffers, M ^a   Keane, F B V ^a  

^a ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Granuloma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARASITE; SARCOIDOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0242607776     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-666X(03)80047-1     Document Type: Article

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