Gastric antral vascular ectasia with portal hypertension: Treatment with TIPSS

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 12 SUPPL., 1997, Pages 2292-2294

  Egger, C ^a   Kreczy, A ^a   Kirchmair, R ^a   Waldenberger, P ^a   Jaschke, W ^a   Vogel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CAPILLARY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER VEIN; OCCULT BLOOD; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; STOMACH ANTRUM; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; OCCULT BLOOD; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PYLORIC ANTRUM; STOMACH DISEASES; TELANGIECTASIS;

EID: 0030819254     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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