Bleeding anorectal varices: Successful treatment with transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting (TIPS)

Gut

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 932-935

  Fantin, A C ^a   Zala, G ^a   Risti, B ^a   Debatin, J F ^a   Schopke W ^a   Meyenberger, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

anorectal varices; endosonography; magnetic resonance imaging; portal hypertension; TIPS

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMORRHOID; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VARICOSIS;

EID: 0030054853     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.38.6.932     Document Type: Article

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