Watermelon stomach: Not only an antral disease

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 897-900

  Stotzer, Per Ove ^a,b,c   Willén, Roger ^a,b   Kilander, Anders F ^a,b  

^a Göteborg University ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STROKE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WATERMELON; CARDIA; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH DISEASE; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIA; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYLORIC ANTRUM; STOMACH DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036615416     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.124558     Document Type: Article

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