Acute Mesenteric Ischemia Is a More Common Cause than Expected of Acute Abdomen in the Elderly

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1407-1414

  Kärkkäinen, Jussi M ^a   Lehtimäki, Tiina T ^a   Manninen, Hannu ^a,b   Paajanen, Hannu ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acute abdomen; Acute mesenteric ischemia; Epidemiology; Incidence; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84937967041     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-015-2830-3     Document Type: Article

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