Treatment of bleeding esophageal varices with cyanoacrylate and polidocanol, or polidocanol alone: Results of a prospective study in an unselected group of patients with cirrhosis of the liver

Endoscopy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 241-246

  Lux, G ^a   Retterspitz, M ^a   Stabenow Lohbauer, U ^a   Langer, M ^a   Altendorf Hofmann, A ^b   Bozkurt, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE; ENBUCRILATE; POLIDOCANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0030862953     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1004183     Document Type: Article

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