Problems with combining together EGD, PEG, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy to analyze risks of endoscopic procedures after MI: A call for stratifying risk according to individual endoscopic procedures

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-99

  Cappell, Mitchell S ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROSTOMY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67651180681     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3180cab693     Document Type: Letter

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