Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding in 1,112 patients admitted to an urban emergency medical center

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 600-607

  Gayer, Christopher ^a   Chino, Akiko ^a   Lucas, Charles ^a   Tokioka, Satoshi ^a   Yamasaki, Takuji ^a   Edelman, David A ^a   Sugawa, Choichi ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COLON DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERTICULOSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEAT TREATMENT; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMORRHOID; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; URBAN AREA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70349307043     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.055     Document Type: Article

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