Idiopathic Colonic Varices as a Cause of Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1112-1114

  Place, Ronald J ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; RADIOGRAPHY; VARICOSIS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; COLON; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0034323617     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200093110-00017     Document Type: Article

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