Appendiceal mucocele: Case reports and review of current literature

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2280-2283

  Karakaya, Kemal ^a   Barut, Figen ^a   Emre, Uli Ugur ^a   Ucan, Hamdi Bulent ^a   Cakmak, Guldeniz Karadeniz ^a   Irkorucu, Oktay ^a   Tascilar, Oge ^a   Ustundag, Yucel ^a   Comert, Mustafa ^a  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appendix; Diagnosis; Mucocele; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL MUCOCELE; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CECUM DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MUCOCELE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; APPENDICITIS; CECUM; ENTEROPATHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; CECUM; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 49249085104     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.2280     Document Type: Article

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