Does scant hematochezia necessitate the performance of total colonoscopy?

Endoscopy

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 599-603

  Eckardt, V F ^a   Schmitt, T ^a   Kanzler, G ^b   Eckardt, A J ^b   Bernhard, G ^c  

^a DEUTSCHE KLINIK FÜR DIAGNOSTIK   (Germany)

^b Gastroenterologisches Institut Wiesbaden   (Germany)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CANCER; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OCCULT BLOOD; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADENOMA; AGE; EVALUATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OCCULT BLOOD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036023096     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33249     Document Type: Article

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