Urgent colonoscopy for evaluation and management of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage: A randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2395-2402

  Green, Bryan T ^a   Rockey, Don C ^a,b   Portwood, G ^a   Tarnasky, Paul R ^a   Guarisco, Steve ^a   Branch, Malcolm S ^a   Leung, Joseph ^a   Jowell, Paul ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

LAXATIVE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHARTICS; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; TELANGIECTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30044440310     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2005.00306.x     Document Type: Article

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