Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Surgical Treatment: Multimedia

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Further Reading

Clinical guidelines:
ACR Appropriateness Criteria® left lower quadrant pain. American College of Radiology - Medical Specialty Society. 1996 (revised 2008). 5 pages. NGC:006988

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® treatment of acute nonvariceal gastrointestinal tract bleeding. American College of Radiology - Medical Specialty Society. 2006. 6 pages. NGC:005537

ASGE guideline: the role of endoscopy in the patient with lower-GI bleeding. American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - Medical Specialty Society. 2005 Nov. 5 pages. NGC:004584

Practice parameters for the management of hemorrhoids (revised). American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons - Medical Specialty Society. 1993 (revised 2005 Feb). 6 pages. NGC:004337

Practice parameters for the treatment of perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano (revised). American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons - Medical Specialty Society. 1996 (revised 2005 Jul). 6 pages. NGC:004432

Clinical trials:
A Study To Investigate The Safety And Efficacy Of CP- 690,550 In Patients With Moderate And Severe Ulcerative Colitis.

Mechanistic Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of Mesalazine in Symptomatic Diverticular Disease

Keywords

lower gastrointestinal bleeding, gastrointestinal bleeding, rectal bleeding, colectomy, gastrointestinal endoscopy, gastrointestinal bleed, lower GI bleeding, rectal hemorrhage, lower diverticular hemorrhage, diverticular bleeding, diverticulosis, anorectal diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, IBD, angiodysplasias, small bowel diverticulosis

Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Burt Cagir, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center; Consulting Staff, Director of Surgical Research, Robert Packer Hospital; Associate Program Director, Department of Surgery, Guthrie Clinic
Burt Cagir, MD, FACS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association, and Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
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Elizabeth Cirincione, MD, Director of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Nassau University Medical Center
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John Geibel, MD, DSc, MA, Vice Chairman, Professor, Department of Surgery, Section of Gastrointestinal Medicine and Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Director of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Yale-New Haven Hospital
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