Does concern about missing malignancy justify endoscopy in uncomplicated dyspepsia in patients aged less than 55?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 75-79

  Gillen, Derek ^a   McColl, Kenneth E L ^a  

^a NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032895372     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.00774.x     Document Type: Article

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