Ruptured duodenal varices successfully treated with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration: Usefulness of microcatheters

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 725-727

  Sonomura, Tetsuo ^a   Horihata, Koushi ^a   Yamahara, Kunihiro ^a   Dozaiku, Toshio ^a   Toyonaga, Takashi ^a   Hiroka, Takashi ^a   Sato, Morio ^b  

^a Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUODENUM BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042009740     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.181.3.1810725     Document Type: Article

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