Antegrade double balloon enteroscopy for continued obscure gastrointestinal bleeding following push enteroscopy: Is there a role?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1381-1384

  Chettiar, R ^a   Selby, W S ^a   Kaffes, A J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BALLOON DILATATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953645727     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-009-0892-3     Document Type: Article

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