Haemorrhoids: Modern diagnosis and treatment

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 1083, 2016, Pages 4-8

  Hollingshead, J R F ^a   Phillips, R K S ^a  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAXATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; NIFEDIPINE;

ARTERY LIGATION; BLEEDING; COLONOSCOPY; DEFECATION URGENCY; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PATIENT CARE; PENIS INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STENOSIS; URINE RETENTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; COMORBIDITY; DEVICES; HEMORRHOIDS; LIGATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HEMORRHOIDS; HUMANS; LAXATIVES; LIGATION; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84949989488     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133328     Document Type: Review

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