Metastatic appendiceal adenocarcinoma presenting late as epididymo-orchitis: A case report and review of literature

BMC Urology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-4

  Kulkarni, Shashank ^a   Coup, Andrew ^a   Kershaw, John B ^a   Buchholz, Noor PN ^b  

^a UNITED LINCOLNSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EPIDIDYMITIS; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; REVIEW; APPENDIX TUMOR; COLLOID CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; TESTIS TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; AGED; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EPIDIDYMITIS; HUMANS; MALE; ORCHITIS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2642515742     PISSN: 14712490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2490-4-1     Document Type: Review

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