Epiploic appendagitis: Report of two cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-153

  Talukdar, Rupjyoti ^a   Saikia, Nripen ^a   Mazumder, Subhasish ^a   Gupta, Chandresh ^a   Khanna, Sudeep ^a   Chaudhuri, Deb ^a   Bhullar, S S ^a   Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Epiploic appendage; Inflammation; Torsion

Indexed keywords

MESALAZINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DESCENDING COLON; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; TRANSVERSE COLON;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; COLITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846475532     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3345-z     Document Type: Article

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