Urgent computed tomography for determining the optimal timing of colonoscopy in patients with acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Internal Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 553-558

  Nakatsu, Satoko ^a   Yasuda, Hiroshi ^a   Maehata, Tadateru ^a   Nomoto, Masahito ^a   Ohinata, Nobuyuki ^a   Hosoya, Kosuke ^a   Ishigooka, Shinya ^a   Ozawa, Shunichiro ^a   Ikeda, Yoshiko ^a   Sato, Yoshinori ^a   Suzuki, Midori ^a   Kiyokawa, Hirofumi ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroyuki ^a   Itoh, Fumio ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Diverticular bleeding; Lower gastrointestinal bleeding; Urgent colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; IOPAMIDOL; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BLEEDING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLITIS; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; RECTUM INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULUM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLITIS, ISCHEMIC; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84924872887     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.54.2829     Document Type: Article

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