Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in Crohn's disease: Characteristics of a unique series of 34 patients

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2177-2181

  Belaiche, Jacques ^a   Louis, Edouard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033179789     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1999.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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