Hemorrhagic complications of large volume abdominal paracentesis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 366-368

  Webster, Stephen T ^a,b   Brown, Kimberly L ^a   Lucey, Michael R ^a   Nostrant, Timothy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PARACENTESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; ASCITES; ASCITIC FLUID; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUNCTURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030038852     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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