Factitious disorder as a cause of gastrointestinal bleeding: Use of a gastroenterologist's "secondary survey"

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 456-458

  Barkin, Jodie A ^a   Biagini, Timothy M ^a   Barkin, Jamie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OCTREOTIDE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM ULCER; THROMBOCYTE;

ADULT; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84875183627     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2012.420     Document Type: Letter

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