The evaluation and treatment of hemorrhoids: A guide for the gastroenterologist

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 593-603

  Ganz, Robert A ^a  

^a Minnesota Gastroenterology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; KERATOLYTIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; RUBBER;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLONOSCOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOSURGERY; DETERIORATION; DIATHERMY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY FIBER; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOID HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INTESTINE PREPARATION; LIGATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL HISTORY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

DIATHERMY; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LIGATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84878134327     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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