Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in southern Saudi Arabia

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-64

  El Bagir K Ahmed, M ^a,b   Al Knaway, B ^a   Al Wabel, A H ^a   Malik, G M ^a   Foli, A K ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM HEMORRHAGE; DUODENUM ULCER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SAUDI ARABIA; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH ULCER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DUODENAL ULCER; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 0031020006     PISSN: 00358819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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