Alarm features and age for predicting upper gastrointestinal malignancy in Chinese patients with dyspepsia with high background prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and upper gastrointestinal malignancy: An endoscopic database review of 102 665 patients from 1996 to 2006

Gut

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 722-728

  Bai, Yu ^a   Li, Zhao Shen ^a   Zou, Duo Wu ^b   Wu, Ren Pei ^a   Yao, Yin Zhen ^a   Jin, Zhen Dong ^a   Ye, Ping ^a   Li, Shu De ^a   Zhang, Wen Jun ^a   Du, Yi Qi ^a   Zhan, Xian Bao ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Gao, Jun ^a   Xu, Guo Ming ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHINA; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953721939     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2009.192401     Document Type: Review

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