A pilot study on modified endoscopic variceal ligation using endoscopic ultrasonography with color Doppler function

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 150-155

  Nagamine, Nobuhiko ^a   Ueno, Norio ^a   Tomiyama, Takeshi ^a   Aizawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Tano, Shigeo ^a   Wada, Shinichi ^a   Suzuki, Takanori ^a   Amagai, Kenji ^a   Ono, Kazunori ^a   Kumakura, Yasuhisa ^a   Hirasawa, Tomosuke ^a   Ishino, Yumiko ^a   Ido, Kenichi ^a   Kimura, Ken ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPLICATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RECURRENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0032008377     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.1998.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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