The Role of Colonoscopy and Radiological Procedures in the Management of Acute Lower Intestinal Bleeding

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 333-343

  Strate, Lisa L ^a   Naumann, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding; Multirow Detector CT Scan; Nuclear Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIVERTICULOSIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMORRHOID; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE PERFORATION; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; POLYPECTOMY; PREVALENCE; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE MANAGEMENT; COLONOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949653475     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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