Fatal bleeding from a residual vein at the esophageal ulcer base after successful endoscopic variceal ligation

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 158-160

  Toyoda, Hidenori ^a   Fukuda, Yoshihide ^a   Katano, Yoshiaki ^a   Ebata, Mieko ^a   Nagano, Ken Ichi ^a   Morita, Kiyoshi ^a   Yokozaki, Shoichi ^a   Takeuchi, Mamiko ^a   Hayakawa, Tetsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Endoscopic variceal band ligation; Fatal bleeding; Perforating veins; Ulceration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR; STAINING; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN RUPTURE;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; ULCER; VEINS;

EID: 0035147130     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200102000-00014     Document Type: Article

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