Colonoscopic findings in patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding send to a hospital for their study. Value of clinical data in predicting normal or pathological findings

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-25

  Fernandez E ^a   Linares, A ^a   Alonso, J L ^a   Sotorrio, N G ^a   Dela, Vega J ^a   Artimez, M L ^a   Giganto, F ^a   Rodriguez M ^a   Sáez, Luis Rodrigo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO CENTRAL DE ASTURIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical data; Colonoscopic diagnosis; Etiology; Lower gastrointestinal bleeding; Predictive values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIODYSPLASIA; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCTITIS;

EID: 0029689026     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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