Possible link between ulcerative colitis and in situ adenocarcinoma of an appendiceal mucocele: Importance of inflammation in the appendiceal orifice related to UC

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 873-874

  Takeda, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakase, Hiroshi ^a   Mikami, Sakae ^a   Inoue, Tateaki ^a   Satou, Seizi ^a   Sakai, Yoshiharu ^a   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MUCOCELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDIX; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE;

EID: 46049092237     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ibd.20386     Document Type: Letter

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