The usefulness of CT guided drainage of abscesses caused by retained appendicoliths

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-83

  Buckley, O ^a   Geoghegan, T ^a   Ridgeway, P ^a   Colhoun, E ^a   Snow, A ^a   Torreggiani, W C ^a  

^a ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Abdomen; Appendix; CT; Intervention

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABSCESS CAVITY; APPENDIX; LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDICECTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX STONE; ARTICLE; CATHETER REMOVAL; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABSCESS; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; CALCULI; CECAL DISEASES; CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748680291     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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