Can clinical features predict the likelihood of finding abnormalities when using capsule endoscopy in patients with GI bleeding of obscure origin?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 782-787

  Selby, Warwick ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CECUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON LAVAGE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANGIODYSPLASIA; CAPSULES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULCER;

EID: 3042836508     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)00168-3     Document Type: Article

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