An unusual cause of acute appendicitis: Appendiceal endometriosis

International Journal of Surgery Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 54-57

  Emre, Arif ^a   Akbulut, Sami ^b   Yilmaz, Mehmet ^b   Bozdag, Zehra ^a  

^a MALATYA STATE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Endometriosis; Unusual presentation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATURIA; HISTOPATHOLOGIC SKIN REACTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; URINALYSIS; UTERUS CAVITY; VOMITING; X RAY;

EID: 84868256144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22102612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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