Colonic diverticular bleeding: urgent colonoscopy without purging and endoscopic treatment with epinephrine and hemoclips
Diverticular disease is the most frequent cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Most of the times, bleeding stops without any intervention but in 10-20 % of the cases it is necessary to treat the hemorrhage. Several modalities of endoscopic treatment have been described after purging the colon....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Aran Ediciones
2013-09-01
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| Series: | Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas |
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1130-01082013000800010&lng=en&tlng=en |