Screening for anemia in patients on warfarin facilitates diagnosis of gastrointestinal malignancies and pre-malignant lesions

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Johannsdottir, Gudrun Arna ^a   Onundarson, Pall T ^b   Gudmundsdottir, Brynja R ^b   Bjornsson, Einar Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

anemia; angiodysplasia; gastrointestinal malignancy; peptic ulcer; warfarin

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE POLYP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN RED CELL VOLUME; OCCULT BLOOD; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREENING TEST; ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ICELAND; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WARFARIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865212764     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: 18792472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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