A multicenter, randomized, double‐blind trial of somatostatin in the management of acute hemorrhage from esophageal varices

Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 958-961

  Valenzuela, Jorge E ^a   Schubert, Timothy ^b   Fogel, M Ronald ^b   Strong, Richard M ^b   Levine, Joel ^b   Mills, Peter R ^b   Fabry, Thomas L ^b   Taylor, Linda W ^b   Conn, Harold O ^b   Posillico, James T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOMATOSTATIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024824733     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840100611     Document Type: Article

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