Complications of endoscopy

Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 187-204

  Vallera, R ^a   Baillie, J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; COLON PERFORATION; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; ESOPHAGUS PROSTHESIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIGATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PANCREATITIS; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; REVIEW; SEDATION; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 0029874272     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1005430     Document Type: Review

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