The role of endoscopy in the management of patients with known and suspected colonic obstruction and pseudo-obstruction

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 669-679

  Harrison, M Edwyn ^a   Anderson, Michelle A ^a   Appalaneni, Vasu ^a   Banerjee, Subhas ^a   Ben Menachem, Tamir ^a   Cash, Brooks D ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a   Fisher, Laurel ^a   Fukami, Norio ^a   Gan, Seng Ian ^a   Ikenberry, Steven O ^a   Jain, Rajeev ^a   Khan, Khalid ^a   Krinsky, Mary Lee ^a   Maple, John T ^a   Shen, Bo ^a   Van Guilder, Trina ^a   Baron, Todd H ^a   Dominitz, Jason A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CISAPRIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROGOL; METAL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NEOSTIGMINE; PHENOTHIAZINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON OBSTRUCTION; COLON VOLVULUS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSULTATION; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIARRHEA; DRUG TOXICITY; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDLINE; MIOSIS; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; NAUSEA; NOSE FEEDING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PERISTALSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOOBSTRUCTION; RESTLESSNESS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SALIVATION; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STENT; SWEATING; TREMOR; VOMITING;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; PALLIATIVE CARE;

EID: 77950220325     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.11.027     Document Type: Article

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