Laparoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic option in evaluating chronic unexplained right iliac fossa pain

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2793-2795

  Siriwardana, Rohan C ^a   Renuka, Saman ^a   Kumarage, Sumudu ^a  

^a University Surgical Unit   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Appendectomy; Chronic right iliac fossa pain; Laparoscopy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC RIGHT ILIAC FOSSA PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OVARY CYST; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINALYSIS; UTERINE TUBE TUMOR; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 78650204233     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-010-1049-3     Document Type: Article

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