Diagnostic yield of endoscopy in patients with abdominal complaints: Incremental value of faecal calprotectin on guidelines of appropriateness

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Burri, Emanuel ^a,b   Manz, Michael ^c   Schroeder, Patricia ^a   Froehlich, Florian ^a   Rossi, Livio ^a   Beglinger, Christoph ^a   Lehmann, Frank S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Liestal   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Gastroenterology St Claraspital ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; Calprotectin; Colonoscopy; Diagnostic accuracy; Esophagogastroduodenoscopy

Indexed keywords

CALGRANULIN;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; ADENOMA; CARCINOMA; CHEMISTRY; COLITIS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; EUROPE; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER;

ADENOMA; AGED; CARCINOMA; COLITIS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; EUROPE; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STOMACH ULCER;

EID: 84897433475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-14-57     Document Type: Article

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