Prospective, randomized, controlled, observer-blinded trial of combined infrared photocoagulation and micronized purified flavonoid fraction versus each alone for the treatment of hemorrhoidal disease

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 746-754

  Dimitroulopoulos, Dimicrios ^a,b   Tsamakidis, Klisthenis ^a   Xinopoulos, Dimicrios ^a   Karaitianos, Ioannis ^a   Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Paraskevas, Emmanouil ^a  

^a SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Hemorrhoids; Infrared photocoagulation; Micronized purified flavonoid fraction

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSOMNIA; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; NAUSEA; PAIN; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RELAPSE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27744522734     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2005.06.016     Document Type: Article

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