A comparative study of chemical and immunological method of fecal occult blood test in the diagnosis of occult lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Bangladesh Medical Research Council Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 52-56

  Yeasmin, F ^a   Ali, Ma ^a   Rahman, Ma ^b   Sultana, T ^b   Rahman, M Q ^b   Ahmed, Ann ^b  

^a Ad din Women's Medical College   (Bangladesh)

^b BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; COLON ULCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GOLD STANDARD; HEMORRHOID; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ANUS FISSURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; INTESTINAL TISSUE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECTUM ULCER; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANGLADESH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GUAIAC; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904872185     PISSN: 03779238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3329/bmrcb.v39i2.19641     Document Type: Article

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