Complications of Meckel's diverticula in adults

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 353-357

  Dumper, Jaymi ^a   Mackenzie, Shown ^a   Mitchell, Philip ^a   Sutherland, Francis ^a   Quan, May Lynn ^a   Mew, Daphne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; INTESTINE ULCER; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROTOMY; LIPOMA; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARCINOID TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LIPOMA; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 33845308196     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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