Left-sided appendicitis in a patient with congenital gastrointestinal malrotation: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Welte, Frank J ^a   Grosso, Mario ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CEFOXITIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; INSULIN; ISOPHANE INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LIPID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANOREXIA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DIVERTICULITIS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; INTESTINE MALROTATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 44949198261     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-1-92     Document Type: Article

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