Predictive factors for colonic diverticular rebleeding: A retrospective analysis of the clinical and colonoscopic features of 111 patients

Gut and Liver

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 334-338

  Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a   Motomura, Yasuaki ^a   Akahoshi, Kazuya ^a   Iwao, Risa ^a   Komori, Keishi ^a   Nakama, Naotaka ^a   Osoegawa, Takashi ^a   Itaba, Soichi ^a   Kubokawa, Masaru ^a   Hisano, Terumasa ^a   Ihara, Eikichi ^b   Nakamura, Kazuhiko ^b   Takayanagi, Ryoichi ^b  

^a ASO IIZUKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Colonic diverticular bleeding; Predictive factors; Rebleeding; Retrospective analysis

Indexed keywords

HEMOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SIGMOID;

EID: 84865435074     PISSN: 19762283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5009/gnl.2012.6.3.334     Document Type: Article

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