Paracolic echogenic mass in a man with lower abdominal pain. Is epiploic appendagitis more common than previously thought?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Hanson, J M ^a,b   Kam, A W ^a  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULITIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645053811     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028696     Document Type: Article

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