Endoscopic variceal ligation versus endoscopie variceal ligation and endoscopic sclerotherapy: A prospective randomized study

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 950-953

  Bhargava, D K ^a,b   Pokharna, R ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Department of Gastroenterology ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; ULCER;

EID: 0030981172     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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