Mesenteric and omental amyloidosis mimicking intraperitoneal carcinomatosis

Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-475

  Akl, Mohamed N ^a   Kho, Rosanne M ^a   McCullough, Ann E ^a   Collins, Joseph M ^a   Lund, Jeffrey T ^a   Magtibay, Paul M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADNEXECTOMY; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOMATOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; MESENTERY DISEASE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OMENTECTOMY; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MESENTERY; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49049110687     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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