Combination of age and sex improves the ability to predict upper gastrointestinal malignancy in patients with uncomplicated dyspepsia: A prospective multicentre database study

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 784-791

  Marmo, Riccardo ^a   Rotondano, Gianluca ^a   Piscopo, Roberta ^a   Bianco, Maria Antonia ^a   Russo, Paola ^a   Capobianco, Paola ^a   Cipolletta, Livio ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 17544377488     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.40085.x     Document Type: Article

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