Lower gastrointestinal bleeding: A review

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 514-520

  Edelman, David A ^a   Sugawa, Choichi ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Hematochezia; LGIB; Review

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ANAMNESIS; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARGON LASER; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BARIUM MEAL; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; HEMORRHOID; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; INTESTINE POLYP; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LARGE INTESTINE HEMORRHAGE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, LARGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947304348     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-9191-7     Document Type: Review

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