Cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix: An incidental imaging finding in a patient with adenocarcinomas of the ascending and the sigmoid colon

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Pitiakoudis, Michail ^a   Argyropoulou, Paraskevi I ^a   Tsaroucha, Alexandra K ^a   Prassopoulos, Panos ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; AGED; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON RADIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MUCOCELE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOID CARCINOMA; SIGMOIDECTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MUCOCELE; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; RECTUM;

EID: 2442685501     PISSN: 1471230X     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-3-30     Document Type: Article

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