Rectal bleeding in Egyptian children

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 337-344

  El Khayat, Hamed A ^a   El Hodhod, Mostafa A ^a,b   Abd El Basset, Fatma Z ^a   Tomoum, Hoda Y ^a   El Safory, Hisham A ^a   Hamdy, Ahmed M ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams Universty ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CEPHALOSPORIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE; ETIOLOGY;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BARIUM MEAL; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EGYPT; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE INTUSSUSCEPTION; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE ULCER; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE POLYP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLITIS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOLITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINAL POLYPS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM;

EID: 34447294519     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X152863     Document Type: Article

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