Hookworm infection presenting as overt gastrointestinal bleeding: Lessons from double-balloon enteroscopy in the tropics

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1310-1311

  Kshaunish, Das ^a   Kausik, Das ^a   Dasgupta, Jayanta ^a   Dhali, Gopal Krishna ^a   Chowdhury, Abhijit ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LETTER; MALE; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MELENA; NECATORIASIS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 43549116119     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01782_5.x     Document Type: Letter

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