Is full colonoscopic examination necessary in young patients with fresh bleeding per rectum?

Endoscopy

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 692-696

  Khalid, A B ^a   Majid, S ^a   Salih, M ^a   Hashmat, F ^a   Jafri, W ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANUS FISSURE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COLITIS; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DIVERTICULOSIS; FEMALE; FRESH BLEEDING PER RECTUM; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; ULCER;

EID: 79961127021     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1256356     Document Type: Article

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