Extensive stage small cell lung cancer presenting as an acute perforated appendix: Case report and review of the literature

American Surgeon

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 706-709

  Goldstein, Evan B ^a   Savel, Richard H ^a   Walter, Kristin L ^a   Rankin, Linda F ^a   Satheesan, Radhakrishnan ^a   Lehman, Herbert E ^a   Steiner, Henry ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4544330511     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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