Fatal Hemorrhage from a giant Mallory-Weiss tear

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 635-

  Skok, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; DEATH; ENDOSCOPY; FATALITY; HEMATEMESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MALLORY WEISS SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESUSCITATION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VOMITING;

ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MALLORY-WEISS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; SHOCK, HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0037478570     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-40214     Document Type: Article

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