Ileoscopy in 39 hematochezia patients with normal colonoscopy
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7 . Colonoscopy and severe hematochezia
Hematochezia is the passage of bright red blood or maroon colored blood, with or without clots, per rectum. Most often hematochezia is low grade and self limited and does not require hospitalization or urgent intervention. Such patients can be managed in an outpatient setting. A smaller group of patients experience severe hematochezia and require hospitalization because of the volume of blood l...
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1007-9327
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i19.3101