Bleeding-related symptoms in colorectal cancer: A 4-year nationwide population-based study

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 77-84

  Hreinsson, J P ^a,b   Jonasson, J G ^a,b,c   Bjornsson, E S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC CANCER REGISTRY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ICELAND; ILEUS; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELENA; METASTASIS; OCCULT BLOOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSVERSE COLON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; ICELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WARFARIN;

EID: 84889669383     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: 13652036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apt.12519     Document Type: Article

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