Left-sided appendicitis: Review of 95 published cases and a case report

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 16, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 5598-5602

  Akbulut, Sami ^a   Ulku, Abdullah ^a   Senol, Ayhan ^a   Tas, Mahmut ^a   Yagmur, Yusuf ^a  

^a Diyarbakir Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnostic dilemma; Left lower quadrant pain; Left sided appendicitis; Midgut malrotation; Situs inversus totalis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CECUM DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEFT SIDED APPENDICITIS; MALROTATION SYNDROME; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDLINE; MIDGUT; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SITUS INVERSUS;

EID: 78649717717     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v16.i44.5598     Document Type: Article

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