The surgical management of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: A 12-year experience

International Journal of Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 377-380

  Clarke, M G ^a   Bunting, D ^a   Smart, N J ^a   Lowes, J ^a   Mitchell, S J ^a  

^a TORBAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

APACHE II; Audit; Comorbidity; Gastrointestinal haemorrhage; Surgery; Surgical training

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955172449     PISSN: 17439191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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