A case of behcet's disease presenting with massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-61

  Altintaş, Engin ^a   Şenli, Mehmet S ^a   Polat, Ayşe ^a   Sezgin, Orhan ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Bowel involvement; Lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COLIC; COLONOSCOPY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM PERFORATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; ILEOCECAL VALVE; INTESTINE ANASTOMOSIS; INTESTINE SOUND; MALAISE; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; OMENTOPLASTY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DUODENUM DISEASE; FATALITY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; DUODENAL DISEASES; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 63449142310     PISSN: 13004948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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