Symptomatic cecal perforation by an intrauterine device with appendectomy removal

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 5 II, 2005, Pages 1239-1241

  Stuckey, Ashley ^a   Dutreil, Paul ^a   Aspuru, Eugenio ^a   Nolan, Thomas E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; CECUM PERFORATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTEROSCOPY; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; CECUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; LAPAROTOMY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 17644373406     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000157760.59342.bc     Document Type: Article

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