Salvage tips for uncontrolled variceal bleeding [3]

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 703-704

  Vangeli, M ^a   Patch, D ^a   Burroughs, A K ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; LETTER; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALVAGE THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; NOTE;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC;

EID: 0036845815     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(02)00321-5     Document Type: Letter

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