The value of flexible sigmoidoscopy for patients with bright red rectal bleeding

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 171-174

  Choi, H K ^a   Law, W L ^a   Chu, K W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasms; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULOSIS; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INFECTION; JUVENILE POLYP; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROCTOCOLITIS; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0038352235     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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