The role of endoscopy in the management of obscure GI bleeding

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 471-479

  Fisher, Laurel ^a   Lee Krinsky, Mary ^a   Anderson, Michelle A ^a   Appalaneni, Vasundhara ^a   Banerjee, Subhas ^a   Ben Menachem, Tamir ^a   Cash, Brooks D ^a   Decker, G Anton ^a   Fanelli, Robert D ^a   Friis, Cindy ^a   Fukami, Norio ^a   Harrison, M Edwyn ^a   Ikenberry, Steven O ^a   Jain, Rajeev ^a   Jue, Terry ^a   Khan, Khalid ^a   Maple, John T ^a   Strohmeyer, Laura ^a   Sharaf, Ravi ^a   Dominitz, Jason A ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ENTEROSTOMY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT SCINTISCANNING; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956255769     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.04.032     Document Type: Article

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