Peptic ulcers after the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake: Increased incidence of bleeding gastric ulcers

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 311-316

  Aoyama, Nobuo ^b   Kinoshita, Yoshikazu ^b   Fujimoto, Sotaro ^b   Himeno, Seiichi ^b   Todo, Akio ^b   Kasuga, Masato ^b   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a  

^a Postgraduate School of Medicine   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DUODENUM ULCER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; STRESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PEPTIC ULCER HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH ULCER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032034130     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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