Diagnostic work-up of rectal bleeding in general practice

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 510, 2005, Pages 14-19

  Heintze, Christoph ^a,g   Matysiak Klose, Dorothea ^b   Kröhn, Thorsten ^c   Wolf, Ute ^e   Brand, Alexander ^d   Meisner, Christoph ^f   Fischer, Imma ^f   Wehrmeyer, Hartwig ^a   Braun, Vittoria ^a  

^a Institute of General Medicine   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c Max Delbruck Centre ^*

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e Klinikum Brandenburg   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; General practice; Internet; Rectal diseases; Survey

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEMORRHOID; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM;

EID: 11944257463     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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