Lower GI bleeding: Epidemiology and management topical collection on large intestine

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ghassemi, Kevin A ^a   Jensen, Dennis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiography; Colitis; Colonic hemorrhage; Colonoscopy; Diverticulosis; Hemoclip; Hemorrhoid; Hemostasis; Neoplasm; Thermal probe; Ulcer; Vascular ectasia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANOSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL CLIP; CAUTERIZATION; COLON HEMORRHAGE; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; CRYSTALLOID; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; MECHANICAL PROBE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; RESUSCITATION; RISK FACTOR; SCINTISCANNING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; COLONIC DISEASES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES;

COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS;

EID: 84880737431     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-013-0333-5     Document Type: Article

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