Beyond acute appendicitis: Imaging and pathologic spectrum of appendiceal pathology

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 535-542

  Gaetke Udager, Kara ^a   Maturen, Katherine E ^a   Hammer, Suntrea G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendiceal pathologies; Appendix; Computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL CARCINOID; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CARCINOID; CECAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTADENOMA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERITONEUM PSEUDOMYXOMA; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STUMP APPENDICITIS; TIP APPENDICITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; APPENDIX TUMOR; CECUM TUMOR; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CARCINOID TUMOR; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CYSTADENOMA, MUCINOUS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907245303     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-013-1188-7     Document Type: Article

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