Safety and efficacy of digital rectal examination in patients with acute myocardial infarction

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1463-1465

  Akhtar, Abbasi J ^a   Moran, Deborah ^a   Ganesan, Kalpana ^a   Akanno, Jonathan ^a   Tran, Tu ^a   Wu, Roger ^a   Alamy, Moustafa ^a   Kaushik, Vidya S ^a  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; SAFETY;

EID: 0034098320     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(00)00869-8     Document Type: Article

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