Postcolonoscopy appendicitis: Case report and review of the literature [5]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2815-2817

  Izzedine, Hassane ^a   Thauvin, Hughes ^a   Maisel, Andre ^a   Bourry, Edward ^a   Deschamps, Anna ^a  

^a Clinique Internationale du Pare Monceau Paris   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; CASE REPORT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIATHERMY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYPECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; APPENDICITIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; APPENDICITIS; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644832000     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.00309_5.x     Document Type: Letter

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