Causes and outcome of upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding: The grady hospital experience

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-50

  Wilcox, C Mel ^a   Clark, W Scott ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM ULCER; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032933326     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199901000-00008     Document Type: Article

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