Gastrointestinal pathology in the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia: review of endoscopic and pathology records

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 194-199

  Kelly, Paul ^a,b,c   Katema, Mwamba ^a   Amadi, Beatrice ^a   Zimba, Lameck ^a   Aparicio, Sylvia ^a   Mudenda, Victor ^a   Baboo, K Sridutt ^a   Zulu, Isaac ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Cancer; Endoscopy; Gastrointestinal cancer; Gastrointestinal diseases; Gastrointestinal haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DUODENUM ULCER; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH ULCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ZAMBIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZAMBIA;

EID: 38049031929     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.10.006     Document Type: Article

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