Missed diagnoses in patients with upper gastrointestinal cancers

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 874-879

  Yalamarthi, S ^a   Witherspoon, P ^a   McCole, D ^a   Auld, C D ^a  

^a DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH ULCER; SYMPTOM; TIME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4744374903     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-825853     Document Type: Article

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