Capsule endoscopy findings in patients with occult or overt bleeding older than 80 years

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 154-158

  Tsibouris, Panagiotis ^a   Kalantzis, Chrissostomos ^a   Apostolopoulos, Periklis ^a   Alexandrakis, Georgios ^a   Mavrogianni, Panagiota ^a   Kalantzis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a NIMTS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

age over 80 years; occult gastrointestinal bleeding; small bowel capsule endoscopy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PARAMETERS; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; INTESTINE ULCER; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD; OVERT BLEEDING; SMALL BOWEL PASSING TIME; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84860635764     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2011.01197.x     Document Type: Article

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