Acute appendicitis due to appendiceal obstruction from a migrated biliary stent

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-196

  Tzovaras, George ^a,b   Liakou, Paraskevi ^a   Makryiannis, Evaghelos ^a   Paroutoglou, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; APPENDIX DISEASE; APPENDIX OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT STENT; BILIARY STENT MIGRATION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; COMMON BILE DUCT STENOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NAUSEA; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLANGITIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; PLASTICS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846102560     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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