The usefulness of ultrasonic microprobe imaging for endoscopic variceal ligation

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-529

  Nagamine, Nobuhiko ^a   Ido, Kenichi ^a   Ueno, Norio ^a   Kimura, Ken ^a   Kawamata, Tadashi ^a   Kawada, Hiroshi ^a   Hirasawa, Tomosuke ^a   Suzuki, Takanori ^a   Kubo, Hirohide ^a   Tokumaru, Kenkichi ^a   Seki, Masaru ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN LIGATION;

AGED; AZYGOS VEIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0029958807     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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