Endometriosis of the Appendix

African Health Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 196-198

  Al Oulaqi, Nasser S ^a   Hefny, Ashraf F ^a   Joshi, Sandyia ^a   Salim, Khalid ^a   Abu Zidan, Fikri M ^b  

^a AL AIN HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Appendix; Endometriosis; Female; Infertility

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE;

EID: 65349116518     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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