Diagnostic yield of colonoscopy to evaluate melena after a nondiagnostic EGD

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 819-826

  Etzel, Jason P ^a   Williams, J Lucas ^a   Jiang, Zibing ^a   Lieberman, David A ^a   Knigge, Kandice ^a   Faigel, Douglas O ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIVERTICULUM, COLON; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULCER;

EID: 84862803713     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2011.11.041     Document Type: Article

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