Occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: Causes and clinical management

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 265-279

  Rockey, Don C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; DANAZOL; FERROUS FUMARATE; FERROUS GLUCONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; OCTREOTIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; OCCULT BLOOD; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE HEMORRHAGE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77952098033     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2010.42     Document Type: Review

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