Stump appendicitis: A rare but important entity

Surgeon

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-54

  Roche Nagle, G ^a   Gallagher, C ^a   Kilgallen, C ^a   Caldwell, M ^a  

^a SLIGO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Appendicitis; Morbidity; Stump appendicitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 13844318089     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1479-666X(05)80015-0     Document Type: Article

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