Appendicitis and infections of the appendix

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-97

  Lamps, Laura W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Bacterial appendicitis; Infectious disease; Parasite; Viral appendicitis

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADENOVIRUS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOLOGY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENTEROBIASIS; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; YERSINIA;

EID: 13844280623     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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