Gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-418

  Kjeldsen, Anette D ^a   Kjeldsen, Jens ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0033953054     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00851-5     Document Type: Article

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