Nasogastric aspirate predicts high-risk endoscopic lesions in patients with acute upper-GI bleeding

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 172-178

  Aljebreen, Abdulrahman M ^a,b   Fallone, Carlo A ^a,b   Barkun, Alan N ^a,b  

^a University of Calgary ^*

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH INTUBATION; STOMACH SUCTION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COLOR; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1042301306     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02543-4     Document Type: Article

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