Integrating urgent multidetector CT scanning in the diagnostic algorithm of active lower GI bleeding

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 402-405

  Copland, Andrew ^a   Munroe, Craig A ^a   Friedland, Shai ^a   Triadafilopoulos, George ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77955697304     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.04.014     Document Type: Editorial

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