The diagnostic yield of colonoscopy in patients with isolated abdominal pain

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 1382, 2013, Pages 36-44

  Kueh, Shaw Hua ^a   Zhou, Lifeng ^b   Walmsley, Russell S ^a,c  

^a Waitemata District Health Board ^*  (New Zealand)

^b Funding and Planning   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; POLYP; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; ULCER; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884585243     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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