Prevalence and risk factors for gall bladder polyps

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 336-341

  Canturk Z ^a   Senturk O ^a,b   Canturk N Z ^a   Anik, Y A ^b  

^a Department of Endocrinology ^*

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FATS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 34548411774     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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