Should we exclude individuals from endoscopy based exclusively on the absence of alarm symptoms?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 910-911

  Dinis Ribeiro, M ^a   Lomba Viana, H ^a   Silva, R ^a   Fernandes, N ^a   Abreu, N ^a   Brandao C ^a   Moreira Dias, L ^a   Da Costa Pereira, A ^b  

^a PORTUGUESE ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

^b Porto Faculty of Medicine   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPSINOGEN I; PEPSINOGEN II;

ANAMNESIS; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPLASIA; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTRITIS, ATROPHIC; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4544367101     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520410003317     Document Type: Letter

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