A prospective endoscopic evaluation of the causes of upper GI hemorrhage in alcoholics: A focus on alcoholic gastropathy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1343-1347

  Wilcox, C Mel ^a   Alexander, Lorraine N ^b   Straub, Robert F ^b   Clark, W Scott ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; ENDOSCOPY; EROSIVE GASTRITIS; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; PEPTIC ULCER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0030018749     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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