Left-sided acute appendicitis with intestinal malrotation

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-127

  Kamiyama, Takuro ^a   Fujiyoshi, Fumito ^a   Hamada, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakajo, Masayuki ^a   Harada, Osamu ^b   Haraguchi, Yusei ^b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kanoya Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Appendix; Computed tomography; Intestinal malrotation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE MALROTATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; COLON, ASCENDING; DUODENUM; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; MALE; SITUS INVERSUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17044386648     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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