Treatment of watermelon stomach

Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-180

  Dulai, Gareth S ^a   Jensen, Dennis M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYPROHEPTADINE; ESOMEPRAZOLE; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FERROUS GLUCONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; IRON; LANSOPRAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORETHISTERONE ACETATE; OCTREOTIDE; OMEPRAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROGESTERONE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RABEPRAZOLE; SUCRALFATE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANEMIA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMORBIDITY; DIET THERAPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DIZZINESS; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH I; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GYNECOMASTIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEODYMIUM LASER; POLYP; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH ANTRUM RESECTION; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH MUCOSA INJURY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33645500990     PISSN: 10928472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11938-006-0036-1     Document Type: Review

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