Small bowel pseudomelanosis and oral iron therapy: Endoscopic image of interest

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 128-130

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

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Double balloon enteroscopy; Oral iron therapy; Pseudomelanosis; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

FERROUS SULFATE; IRON;

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSAL DISCOLORATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; PIGMENTATION; SMALL BOWEL PSEUDOMELANOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEMATINICS; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; IRON; MALE;

EID: 62449341506     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2009.00834.x     Document Type: Article

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