Abdominal wall and thigh abscess resulting from the penetration of ascending colon cancer

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 281-283

  Tsukuda, Kazunori ^a   Ikeda, Eiji ^a   Miyake, Takayoshi ^a   Ishihama, Yoko ^a   Watatani, Hiroyuki ^a   Nogami, Tomohiro ^a   Masuda, Hiroko ^a   Takagi, Shoji ^a   Hirai, Ryuji ^a   Moriyama, Shigeharu ^a   Tsuji, Hisashi ^a   Furutani, Shiro ^a   Kunitomo, Tadayoshi ^a   Nawa, Sugato ^a  

^a Japanese Red Cross Okayama Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall abscess; Colorectal cancer; Thigh abscess

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABSCESS; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; THIGH;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABSCESS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; THIGH;

EID: 31344432326     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: 0386300X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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