Hemorrhoids

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 371, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 944-951

  Jacobs, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFLAVONOID; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHENYLEPHRINE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ANAL COMPLAINT; ANUS PRURITUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLONOSCOPY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTIPATION; DIETARY FIBER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FIBEROSCOPE; FLUID INTAKE; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDAL THROMBOSIS; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LASER COAGULATION; LIGATION; PHASE 4 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RUBBER BAND LIGATION; SCLEROTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINE RETENTION; VENOUS PRESSURE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; REVIEW;

DIETARY FIBER; FEMALE; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SCLEROTHERAPY; THROMBECTOMY;

EID: 84907001343     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1204188     Document Type: Article

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