How does colorectal cancer present? Symptoms, duration, and clues to location

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3039-3045

  Majumdar, Sumit R ^a   Fletcher, Robert H ^a   Evans, Arthur T ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0032871491     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.01454.x     Document Type: Article

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