Endoscopic lesions in low- to average-risk patients with minimal bright red bleeding from midline anal fissures. How much should we go in?

Techniques in Coloproctology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 340-342

  Sotoudehmanesh, R ^a   Ainechi, S ^a   Asgari, A A ^a   Kolahdoozan, S ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anal fissure; Colonoscopy; Rectal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 38649101272     PISSN: 11236337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10151-007-0377-3     Document Type: Article

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