Anorectal bleeding: Etiology, evaluation, and management (with videos)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 406-417

  Daram, Sumanth R ^a   Lahr, Christopher ^a   Tang, Shou Jiang ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; DILTIAZEM; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MESALAZINE;

ANATOMY; ANUS FISSURE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HEADACHE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PRURITUS; RECTAL ENDOMETRIOSIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SOLITARY RECTAL ULCER SYNDROME; STERCORAL ULCER; ULCER; ULCERATIVE PROCTITIS;

ANAL CANAL; ANUS DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84864116475     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2012.03.178     Document Type: Review

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