Argon plasma coagulation: Clinical experience in pediatric patients

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 110-112

  Khan, Khalid ^a   Schwarzenberg, Sarah Jane ^a   Sharp, Harvey ^a   Weisdorf Schindele, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON ANASTOMOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DUODENUM; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRANULOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; STOMACH; SUBMUCOSA; SURGICAL STAPLING;

EID: 0037286616     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2003.13     Document Type: Article

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