Mucinous neoplasms of the appendix: A current comprehensive clinicopathologic and imaging review

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-25

  Tirumani, Sree Harsha ^a,b   Fraser Hill, Margaret ^b   Auer, Rebecca ^b   Shabana, Wael ^b   Walsh, Cynthia ^b   Lee, Frank ^b   Ryan, John G ^b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appendix; Mucinous neoplasms; Multidetector computed tomography; Pseudomyxoma peritonei; Ultrasonography; WHO classification

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOMA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX CANCER; APPENDIX CARCINOMA; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MUCINOUS CYSTIC NEOPLASM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVARY CANCER; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI;

EID: 84874463951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2013.0003     Document Type: Review

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