Recurrent obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: Time for provocative thinking?

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 571-573

  Ingle, Steven B ^a   Alexander, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; NALOXONE; PETHIDINE; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOLAZOLINE; UROKINASE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; PROVOCATION TEST; PUSH ENTEROSCOPE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 34547730390     PISSN: 15547914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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