Invalidating and recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding caused by intestinal angiodysplasia;Hemorragia invalidante y recidivante por angiodisplasia intestinal: Tratamiento con talidomida

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 306-307

  Serralta De Colsa, D ^a   Arjona Medina, I ^a   Garcia Marin A ^a   Sanz Sanchez M ^a   Turegano Fuentes F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intestinal angiodysplasia; Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding; Thalilomide

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN; THALIDOMIDE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIODYSPLASIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LAPAROTOMY; LETTER; MALE;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THALIDOMIDE;

EID: 47049113466     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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