Surgical management of gastrointestinal bleeding

Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-222

  Stabile, Bruce E ^a,b   Stamos, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIODYSPLASIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; DIEULAFOY DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTERITIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEMOBILIA; HEMORRHAGIC GASTRITIS; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PEPTIC ULCER; REVIEW; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034021397     PISSN: 08898553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8553(05)70112-6     Document Type: Article

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