Abdominal wall endometrioma mimicking an incarcerated hernia: A case report

International Journal of General Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 569-571

  Simoglou, Christos ^a   Zarogoulidis, Paul ^b   Machairiotis, Nikolaos ^a   Porpodis, Konstantinos ^b   Simoglou, Lambros ^c   Mitrakas, Alexandros ^a   Esebidis, Agisilaos ^a   Sarika, Eirini ^a   Kouklakis, George ^a   Iordanidis, Alkis ^a   Katsikogiannis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Komotini General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall tumor; Endometrioma; Seeding endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABDOMINAL WALL ENDOMETRIOMA; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84877124266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/IJGM.S32904     Document Type: Review

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