Colonoscopic evaluation of minimal rectal bleeding in average-risk patients for colorectal cancer

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 42, 2008, Pages 6536-6540

  Nikpour, Shahriar ^a   Asgari, Ali Ali ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colonoscopy; Colorectal neoplasms; Gastrointestinal hemorrhage; Inflammatory bowel disease

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANUS FISSURE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER RISK; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM POLYP; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGE; BLEEDING; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FISSURE IN ANO; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECTUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449111382     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.6536     Document Type: Article

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