Epiploic appendagitis: The great mimicker

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1214-1217

  Sorser, Serge A ^a   Maas, Luis C ^b   Yousif, Edward ^b   Maas, Luis ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SHARP GROSSMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendagitis; Appendicitis epiploica; Epiplopericolitis; Hemorrhagic epiploitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DUODENUM ULCER; EPIPLOIC APPENDAGITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; APPENDICITIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLITIS; COLONIC DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 73949137866     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181bfd531     Document Type: Article

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