Elastic band ligation for bleeding esophagogastric varices

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 44, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 620-624

  Van Stiegmann, Greg ^a,b   Isshi, Kimio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Band ligation; Bleeding varices; Sclerotherapy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; LIGATION; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCAR; SURVIVAL;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LIGATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 0031001819     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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