The optimal age threshold for screening upper endoscopy for uninvestigated dyspepsia in Taiwan, an area with a higher prevalence of gastric cancer in young adults

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 819-825

  Liou, Jyh Ming ^a   Lin, Jaw Town ^a   Wang, Hsiu Po ^a   Huang, Shi Pei ^a   Lee, Yi Chia ^a   Shun, Chia Tung ^a   Lin, Ming Tsan ^a   Wu, Ming Shiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER; SYMPTOM; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 20344407805     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(05)00366-4     Document Type: Article

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