When to suspect ischemic colitis: Why is this condition so often missed or misdiagnosed?

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 177-187

  Alapati, Satyaprasad V ^a   Mihas, Anastasios A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COLON BLOOD FLOW; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033047429     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1999.04.684     Document Type: Review

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