Factors That Contribute to Blood Loss in Patients With Colonic Angiodysplasia From a Population-Based Study

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 415-420

  Diggs, Naomi G ^a   Holub, Jennifer L ^b   Lieberman, David A ^b   Eisen, Glenn M ^b   Strate, Lisa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CORI; Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding; Practice Patterns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONIC ANGIODYSPLASIA; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIODYSPLASIA; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79955017157     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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