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Diagnostic yield of endoscopy in patients with abdominal complaints: incremental value of faecal calprotectin on guidelines of appropriateness

BACKGROUND: European Panel on the Appropriateness of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (EPAGE) criteria have been developed to increase diagnostic yield, but their predictive value is limited. We investigated the incremental diagnostic value of faecal calprotectin to EPAGE criteria. METHODS: In a post-hoc...

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Autores principales: Burri, Emanuel, Manz, Michael, Schroeder, Patricia, Froehlich, Florian, Rossi, Livio, Beglinger, Christoph, Lehmann, Frank Serge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4021405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24679065
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-14-57