Age threshold for endoscopy and risk of missing upper gastrointestinal malignancy - Data from the Scottish audit of gastric and oesophageal cancer

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-233

  Phull, P S ^a   Salmon, C A ^a   Park, K G M ^a   Rapson, T ^b   Thompson, A M ^c   Gilbert, F J ^d  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH SURGERY; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644896211     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2006.02744.x     Document Type: Article

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