Capsule endoscopy in the investigation of patients with portal hypertension and anemia

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-474

  Goulas, Spyros ^a   Triantafyllidou, Konstantina ^b   Karagiannis, Stephanos ^a,c   Nicolaou, Panayiota ^b   Galanis, Petros ^a   Vafiadis, Irene ^b   Tzivras, Michael ^b   Mavrogiannis, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Portal hypertension; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOMA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH VARICES;

ANEMIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 46749100971     PISSN: 08357900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/534871     Document Type: Article

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