Diverticular disease-associated hemorrhage in the elderly

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 386, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 8-16

  Buttenschoen, Klaus ^a   Buttenschoen, Daniela Carli ^a   Odermath, Ralph ^a   Beger, Hans G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Diverticular disease; Elderly

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON RESECTION; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGMOID; THERMOCOAGULATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035116043     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230000198     Document Type: Review

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