Colonoscopically induced appendicitis

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 124-125

  Srivastava, V ^a   Pink, J ^a   Swarnkar, K ^a   Feroz, A ^a   Stephenson, Brian M ^a  

^a ROYAL GWENT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; DEATH; DETERIORATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; VOMITING;

AGED; APPENDICITIS; COLONOSCOPY; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 1842589393     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1318.2004.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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