Gastroenterology
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages e3-e5 , September 2010

Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient With a History of Breast Cancer

  • Josué Barahona-Garrido, MD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Enfermedades Digestivas y Nutricionales and, Department of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Hospital General “San Juan de Dios”, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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  • Gustavo López-Arce, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • Sergio Criales, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico

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PII: S0016-5085(09)01968-4

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2009.09.071

Gastroenterology
Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages e3-e5 , September 2010

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