Investigating painless rectal bleeding - Is there scope for improvement?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1920-1922

  Clarke, Glen ^a   Robb, Andrew ^a   Sugarman, Ian ^b   McCallion, William A ^a  

^a ROYAL BELFAST HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Rectal bleeding; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COLITIS; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JUVENILE POLYP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLITIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGMOID; TRANSVERSE COLON; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 28844483838     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.08.007     Document Type: Article

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