A novel therapeutic approach for rectal varices: A case report of rectal varices treated with double balloon-occluded embolotherapy

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 883-886

  Kimura, Tomo ^b   Haruta, Ikuko ^a   Isobe, Yoshinori ^b   Ueno, Eiko ^b   Toda, Joe ^b   Nemoto, Yukihito ^b   Ishikawa, Kayo ^b   Miyazono, Yuko ^b   Shimizu, Kyoko ^b   Yamauchi, Katsumi ^b   Hayashi, Naoaki ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; MELENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECTUM DISEASE; VARICOSIS;

AGED; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; OLEIC ACIDS; RECTAL DISEASES; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0030995992     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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