Colonoscopic findings and management of patients with outbreak typhoid fever presenting with lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 335-340

  Shaikhani, Mohammad A R ^a,b   Husein, Hiwa A B ^a,b   Karbuli, Taha A ^a,b   Mohamed, Mohamed Abdulrahman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SULAIMANI   (Iraq)

^b Kurdistan Center for Gastroenterology and Hepatology   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Hematochezia; Lower GI bleeding; Typhoid fever

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ARGON;

ADULT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATOR DEVICE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELENA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; CHILD; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOSCOPY; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; ILEAL DISEASES; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TYPHOID FEVER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881610263     PISSN: 02548860     EISSN: 09750711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12664-013-0337-y     Document Type: Article

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