Appendiceal mucocele in an elderly patient: How much surgery?

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 516-522

  Kim Fuchs, C ^a   Chittazhathu Kurian Kuruvilla, Y ^a   Angst, E ^a   Weimann, R ^b   Gloor, B ^a   Candinas, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appendix; Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma; Mucocele; Synchronous tumor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL MUCOCELE; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; COLON ADENOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL DYSPLASIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUCOCELE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

EID: 84855262989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16620631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331438     Document Type: Article

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