Do patients in rural Malawi benefit from upper gastrointestinal endoscopy?

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-76

  Mothes, Henning ^a,b   Chagaluka, Georg ^c   Chiwewe, Denis ^b   Malunga, Martin ^b   Mwatibu, Biswick ^b   Wilhelm, Torsten ^b,d   Settmacher, Utz ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Zomba Central Hospital   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; PEPTIC ULCER; PYLORUS STENOSIS; RURAL AREA; STOMACH CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALAWI; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67149090663     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.080142     Document Type: Article

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