Primary appendiceal mucinous adenocarcinoma alongside with situs inversus totalis: A unique clinical case

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petrou, Athanasios ^a   Papalambros, Alexandros ^a   Katsoulas, Nikolaos ^a   Bramis, Konstantinos ^a   Evangelou, Konstantinos ^a   Felekouras, Evaggelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; ANOREXIA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIMARY APPENDIX MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA; SITUS INVERSUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COLLOID CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SITUS INVERSUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952983335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-49     Document Type: Article

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