Endoscopic treatment for esophageal varices: Will there be a place for sclerotherapy during the forthcoming era of ligation?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 226-232

  Kitano, Seigo ^a   Baatar, Dolgor ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIGATION; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033839046     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2000.108039     Document Type: Article

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