Wireless capsule endoscopy in the investigation of patients with chronic renal failure and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (preliminary data)

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 5182-5185

  Karagiannis, Stephanos ^a,e   Goulas, Spyros ^a   Kosmadakis, Georgios ^b   Galanis, Petros ^a   Arvanitis, Dimitrios ^c   Boletis, John ^b   Georgiou, Evangelos ^d   Mavrogiannis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c AMALIA FLEMING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^e NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiodysplasia; Chronic renal failure; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Obscure; Wireless capsule endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EROSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE STENOSIS; INTESTINE ULCER; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748495798     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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