Age should not be a barrier to performing capsule endoscopy in the elderly with anaemia

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2497-2498

  Sidhu, Reena ^a   McAlindon, Mark E ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANEMIA; ANGIOECTASIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CARCINOID; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE ULCER; LETTER; OBSCURE GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL BOWEL CARCINOID TUMOR; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 79960939737     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1800-1     Document Type: Letter

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