Use of color Doppler EUS in assessing azygos blood flow for patients with portal hypertension

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Yuk Tong Lee, ^a   Sung, J J Y ^a   Man Yee Yung, ^a   Yu, A L M ^a   Chung, S C S ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; PROPRANOLOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOSTATIN; TERLIPRESSIN; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0033063729     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(99)70343-3     Document Type: Article

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