Rendu-Osler-Weber disease successfully treated by argon plasma coagulation

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 525-527

  Kitamura, Tadashi ^b   Tanabe, Satoshi ^a   Koizumi, Wasaburou ^b   Ohida, Masahito ^b   Saigengi, Katsunori ^b   Mitomi, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; STOMACH MUCOSA; VASCULARIZATION;

GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0035490019     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.116885     Document Type: Article

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