Acute upper abdominal gastrointestinal bleeding as initial manifestation of a gastrointestinal tumor;Akute obere gastrointestinale Blutung als Erstmanifestation eines gastrointestinalen Stromatumors

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 360-363

  Zwermann, O ^a   Foll D ^b   Reincke, M ^a   Geissler, M ^a,b  

^a Abteilung Innere Medizin II   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; FIBRIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER CELL; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METASTASIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BIOPSY; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EPINEPHRINE; FIBRIN; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; STROMAL CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1442274591     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-819896     Document Type: Article

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