Barium enema in frail elderly patients

Gerontology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 78-82

  Segal, Refael ^a,b   Khahil, Auni ^a,b   Leibovitz, Arthur ^a,b   Gil, Israel ^a,b   Annuar, Mustafa ^a,b   Habot, Beno ^a,b  

^a Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Barium enema; Frail elderly

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; LAXATIVE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0033981116     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022138     Document Type: Article

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