Lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage from an arterioenteric fistula in a pancreatorenal transplant patient

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 587-591

  McBeth, Brian D ^a   Stern, Susan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOPRESSIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; KIDNEY GRAFT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141755357     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/S0196-0644(03)00388-3     Document Type: Article

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