Thrombosed pelvic collateral veins resulting from anomalous inferior vena cava: A mimicker of acute appendicitis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 703-704

  Moulding, Fenella J ^a   Roach, Sue C ^a   Hanbidge, Anthony E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; APPENDICITIS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PELVIS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 15944367455     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.184.2.01840703     Document Type: Article

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