Signet ring cell carcinoma of the appendix manifesting as colonic obstruction and ovarian tumors: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-240

  Suzuki, Jun ^a   Kazama, Shinsuke ^a   Kitayama, Joji ^a   Uozaki, Hiroshi ^b   Miyata, Tetsuro ^a   Nagawa, Hirokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appendix; Cytokeratin; Ovarian metastasis; Signet ring cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; AGED; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYSTERECTOMY; ILEUM RESECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY METASTASIS; OVARY TUMOR; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62449195116     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3839-y     Document Type: Article

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