Appropriateness of colonoscopy: Hematochezia

Endoscopy

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 631-636

  Gonvers, Jean Jacques ^a   De Bosset, V ^a   Froehlich, F ^a   Dubois, R W ^c   Burnand, B ^b   Vader, J P ^b  

^a POLICLINIQUE MÉDICALE UNIVERSITAIRE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Protocare Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; COLON TUMOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0032589937     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-1999-68     Document Type: Short Survey

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