Iron-deficiency anaemia and delay in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer

Colorectal Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-148

  Acher, P L ^a   Al Mishlab, T ^a   Rahman, M ^a   Bates, Tom ^a  

^a WILLIAM HARVEY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM RESECTION; TIME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037360967     PISSN: 14628910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-1318.2003.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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