Lower Gastrointestinal Tract
"Lower Gastrointestinal Tract" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The segment of GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT that includes the small intestine below the DUODENUM, and the LARGE INTESTINE.
| Descriptor ID |
D041741
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A03.556.249
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lower Gastrointestinal Tract" by people in Profiles.
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Tocilizumab, tacrolimus and methotrexate for the prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease: low incidence of lower gastrointestinal tract disease. Haematologica. 2018 04; 103(4):717-727.
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Gastrointestinal endoscopic findings in men with unexplained anemia and low normal ferritin values. Am J Hematol. 2006 May; 81(5):324-7.
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ASGE Guideline: the role of endoscopy in the patient with lower-GI bleeding. Gastrointest Endosc. 2005 Nov; 62(5):656-60.