The changing spectrum of treatment for variceal bleeding

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 536-546

  Rikkers, Layton F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVASCULARIZATION; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032471697     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199810000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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