Perforated colorectal cancer: An important differential diagnosis in all presumed diverticular abscesses

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 375-378

  Yeo, Eugene Sa ^a   Ng, Kheng Hong ^a   Eu, Kong Weng ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ADULT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON PERFORATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE; PERITONITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 80052828246     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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