Minor complications in colonoscopy: Mars versus Venus, and preps matter too

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 657-659

  Hirota, William K ^a  

^a Tacoma Digestive Disease Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOATING; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTIPATION; COUNSELING; DEATH; DIARRHEA; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RASH; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33947318244     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.08.021     Document Type: Editorial

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