Lesson of the week - Epistaxis: An overlooked cause of massive haematemesis in cirrhosis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7386, 2003, Pages 440-441

  Johal, Shawinder S ^a   Austin, Andrew S ^a   Ryder, Stephen D ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OCTREOTIDE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPISTAXIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIGATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED;

EPISTAXIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037460638     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7386.440     Document Type: Article

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