Spectrum of ischemic colitis in cocaine users

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1537-1541

  Niazi, Masooma ^a   Kondru, Ashok ^a   Levy, Julio ^a   Bloom, Alan A ^a,b  

^a BRONX LEBANON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Ischemic colitis

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON ULCER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; COCAINE; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; CRACK COCAINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; RECTUM; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0030746197     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018839415743     Document Type: Article

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