Role of small bowel investigation in iron deficiency anaemia after negative endoscopic/histologic evaluation of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 784-787

  Annibale, Bruno ^a   Capurso, G ^a   Baccini, F ^a   Lahner, E ^a   D'Ambra, G ^a   Di Giulio, E ^a   Delle Fave, G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Intestinal carcinoma; Iron deficiency anaemia; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; ILEUM CANCER; INTESTINE CARCINOMA; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; INTESTINE ULCER; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JEJUNUM CANCER; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OUTPATIENT; SMALL BOWEL FOLLOW THROUGH; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIATUS HERNIA; ILEUM DISEASE; ILEUM TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; JEJUNUM; JEJUNUM DISEASE; JEJUNUM TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCAPSULE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; SMALL INTESTINE; ULCER; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEORECORDING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BIOPSY; CAPSULES; CROHN DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; INTESTINE, SMALL; JEJUNAL DISEASES; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ULCER; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 1542389153     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00453-5     Document Type: Article

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