| Literature DB >> 15653215 |
Ioannis Korkontzelos1, Sylvia Papanicolaou, Ioannis Tsimoyiannis, Evaggelia Kitsiou, Theodor Stefos, Georgios Tsanadis, Nikolaos Antoniou.
Abstract
Diagnosis of acute appendicitis is considered more difficult in pregnant than in non-pregnant women. The appendicial carcinoid tumor is a lesion that most frequently is discovered incidentally in the removed organ. We report a rare case of an unruptured acute appendicitis during pregnancy, which proved to be a large carcinoid tumor.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15653215 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2004.07.026
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol ISSN: 0301-2115 Impact factor: 2.435