Clearing the stomach before emergency endoscopy in cirrhotics with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding. A gastrokinetic or a vasoactive drug? [1]

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 130-131

  Avgerinos, Alec ^a,b   Vlachogiannakos, Jiannis ^a   Viazis, Nikos ^a   Raptis, Sotiris A ^b  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DRUG EFFECT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; FEMALE; FIRST AID; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH EMPTYING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 0038310712     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(03)00162-4     Document Type: Letter

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