Prospective analysis of complications 30 days after outpatient colonoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 322-328

  Zubarik, Richard ^a   Fleischer, David E ^a   Mastropietro, Chris ^a   Lopez, Jennifer ^a   Carroll, John ^a   Benjamin, Stanley ^a   Eisen, Glenn ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0032863479     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ge.1999.v50.97111     Document Type: Article

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