Ganglioneuroma of small bowel mesentery presenting as acute abdomen

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 573-575

  Pratap, Akshay ^a   Tiwari, Awadhesh ^a   Pandey, Sagar ^a   Yadav, Rohit Prasad ^a   Agrawal, Amit ^a   Sah, Birendra Prasad ^a   Bajracharya, Tamanna ^a   Ghimere, Ashish ^a  

^a B P KOIRALA INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Ganglioneuroma; Mesentery

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMAN; MALE; MESENTERY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; CHILD; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MESENTERY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847281319     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.10.091     Document Type: Article

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