Symptoms in patients with giardiasis undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy

Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 716-720

  Oberhuber, G ^a   Stolte, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM BIOPSY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH DISTENSION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPHOZOITE; VOMITING;

EID: 0030806690     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1004295     Document Type: Article

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