Detection of submucosal gastric fundal varices with multi-detector row CT angiography

Gut

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 886-892

  Willmann, J K ^a   Weishaupt, D ^a   Bohm T ^a   Pfammatter, T ^a   Seifert, B ^b   Marincek, B ^a   Bauerfeind, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR ROW COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLENIC VEIN; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH VARICES; SUBMUCOSA; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC FUNDUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037846407     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.6.886     Document Type: Article

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