Urgent capsule endoscopy is useful in severe obscure-overt gastrointestinal bleeding: Original article

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-92

  Almeida, Nuno ^a   Figueiredo, Pedro ^a   Lopes, Sandra ^a   Freire, Paulo ^a   Lérias, Clotilde ^a   Gouveia, Hermano ^a   Leitão, Maximino C ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Mid gastrointestinal bleeding; Severe overt obscure gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; JEJUNUM TUMOR; MALE; MELENA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION ENTEROPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 62449095783     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2009.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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