Managing haemorrhoids

British Medical Journal

Volumn 327, Issue 7419, 2003, Pages 847-851

  Nisar, Pasha J ^a   Scholefield, John H ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; FLAVANOID; LAXATIVE; STEROID;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CROHN DISEASE; DIETARY FIBER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HEMORRHOIDOPEXY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFESTYLE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIANAL ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOSIS; ULCER; URINE RETENTION; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY CARE; DIET; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; OINTMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SURGICAL STAPLING;

ALGORITHMS; AMBULATORY CARE; CROHN DISEASE; DIET; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; OINTMENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 0141905797     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.327.7419.847     Document Type: Review

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