Postcolonoscopy appendicitis

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 892-895

  Moorman, Matthew L ^a   Miller, Jerad P ^a   Khanduja, Karamjit S ^a   Price, Phillip D ^a  

^a MOUNT CARMEL HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BURN; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FULL THICKNESS BURN; HOT BIOPSY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PERITONITIS; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTPOLYPECTOMY SYNDROME; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77956217475     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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