Should patients with anemia and low normal or normal serum ferritin undergo colonoscopy?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 82-88

  Sawhney, Mandeep S ^a,b,c   Lipato, Thokozeni ^b   Nelson, Douglas B ^a,b   Lederle, Frank A ^a,b   Rector, Thomas S ^a   Bond, John H ^a,b  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Section of Gastroenterology (111 D)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANEMIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33846073047     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00908.x     Document Type: Article

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