What do we really know about colonic angiodysplasia?;¿Qué es lo que realmente se sabe de la angiodisplasia de colon?

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 137-138

  Saperas, Esteban ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; ESTROGEN; OCTREOTIDE; PROGESTERONE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CAUTERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DISEASE; COLONIC ANGIODYSPLASIA; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; EDITORIAL; FIBRINOLYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; VARICOSIS;

EID: 0042810775     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13049793     Document Type: Editorial

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