Isolated colonic ulcers: Diagnosis and management

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 422-428

  Nagar, Anil B ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DICLOFENAC; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; FIBRIN GLUE; IRON; IVERMECTIN; LAXATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN E; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID; SUCRALFATE; SULINDAC; TIABENDAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMEBIASIS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON BIOPSY; COLON INJURY; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DUODENUM INJURY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; FECES IMPACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; PATHOGENESIS; RADIATION; RECTUM ULCER; REVIEW; SCREENING; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; STERCORAL COLON ULCER; STOMACH INJURY; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; COLON DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE MUCOSA; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 38849085339     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-007-0053-9     Document Type: Review

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