Total peroral intraoperative enteroscopy for obscure GI bleeding using a dedicated push enteroscope: Diagnostic yield and patient outcome

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 506-510

  Zaman, A ^a   Sheppard, B ^a   Katon, R M ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEUM; ILEUS; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE INJURY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MORBIDITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TELEVISION CAMERA; UREMIA;

EID: 0032885486     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(99)70073-8     Document Type: Article

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