GI hemorrhage caused by renal vascular graft-enteric fistula: Case report and review

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-139

  Christodoulou, Dimitrios ^a   Tang, Shou Jiang ^a   Ottaway, Clifford ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM; FALSE ANEURYSM; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FISTULA; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY GRAFT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM DISEASE; FATALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RENAL ARTERY; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; DUODENAL DISEASES; DUODENOSCOPY; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL ARTERY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0642345805     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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