Classic "outlet" rectal bleeding does not require full colonoscopy to exclude significant pathology

Diseases of the Colon and Rectum

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 202-206

  Marderstein, Eric L ^a   Church, James M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Gastrointestinal bleeding; Outlet bleeding; Sigmoidoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OCCULT BLOOD; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VILLOUS ADENOMA;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RECTAL DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 39149119946     PISSN: 00123706     EISSN: 15300358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10350-007-9123-1     Document Type: Article

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