Yield of colonoscopy in children with rectal bleeding

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 998-1001

  El Mouzan, Mohammad I ^a   Abdullah, Asaad M ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; RECTUM ULCER; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; RECTUM; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4544354261     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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