Gastrointestinal telangiectasia: A study by EGD, colonoscopy, and capsule endoscopy in 75 patients

Endoscopy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-29

  Polese, Lino ^a,b   D'Inca R ^a   Angriman, I ^a   Scarpa, M ^a   Pagano, D ^a   Ruffolo, C ^a   Lamboglia, F ^a   Stumiolo, G C ^a   D'Amico, D F ^a   Norberto, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; IRON; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM DISEASE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TELANGIECTASIA; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TELANGIECTASIA; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COHORT STUDIES; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TELANGIECTASIS;

EID: 38849167407     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-967039     Document Type: Article

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