Case 9-2009: An 81-year-old man with massive rectal bleeding

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1239-1248

  Forcione, David G ^a,d   Alam, Hasan B ^b,d   Kalva, Sanjeeva P ^c,d   Misdraj, Joseph ^c,e  

^a Gastrointestinal Unit   (United States)

^b Divisions of Trauma   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Department of Surgery ^*

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BUPRENORPHINE PLUS NALOXONE; DIGOXIN; ESCITALOPRAM; ESOMEPRAZOLE; FINASTERIDE; FOLIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; GALANTAMINE; INSULIN; MODAFINIL; MULTIVITAMIN; ONDANSETRON; PANTOPRAZOLE; POLYSTYRENESULFONATE SODIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUININE; SALBUTAMOL; SIMVASTATIN; VERAPAMIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFECATION URGENCY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE DIVERTICULOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SYMPTOM; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; JEJUNUM; JEJUNUM DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUM; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEJUNAL DISEASES; JEJUNUM; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; RECTUM;

EID: 62749181778     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0810836     Document Type: Article

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