Colonoscopy in the very old: Why bother?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 953, 2005, Pages 196-197

  Yoong, K K Y ^a   Heymann, T ^b  

^a KINGSTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH POLYP; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; ENGLAND; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PREJUDICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 15244342460     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2004.023374     Document Type: Article

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