Findings of colonoscopy in children: Experience from Kuwait

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 371-375

  Kalaoui, Maher ^a   Radhakrishnan, S ^a,b   Shamali, Mohammed Al ^a   Kasan, Fuad ^a   Al Nakib, Basil ^a  

^a AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CECUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLON DISEASE; COLON POLYP; COLON POLYPOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUM; INFANT; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; RECTUM ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SIGMOID; TUBERCULOSIS; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 0032415234     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/44.6.371     Document Type: Article

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