Mucocele of the appendix: A report of five cases

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Pitiakoudis, M ^a   Tsaroucha, A K ^a   Mimidis, K ^a   Polychronidis, A ^a   Minopoulos, G ^a   Simopoulos, C ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Appendiceal mucocele; Concomitant colon cancer; Mucinous epithelial neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CECOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; METEORISM; MUCOCELE; SIGMOIDECTOMY; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

EID: 4344605876     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-004-0067-3     Document Type: Article

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