Gastrointestinal cancer and Herpes zoster in adults

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 52, 2003, Pages 1043-1046

  Yamamoto, Manabu ^a,d   Mine, Hiroyuki ^a   Akazawa, Kohei ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^c   Sugimachi, Keizo ^c  

^a Shin Nakama Hospital   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adults; Gastrointestinal disease; Herpes zoster; Japanese

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HERPES ZOSTER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; STOMACH DISEASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0038338642     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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