Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration: It is time to jump on the bandwagon [3]

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 294-295

  Matsumoto, Akio ^a   Matsushita, Masanori ^a   Yamauchi, Hiroaki ^a   Matsumoto, Hisashi ^a   Inokuchi, Hideto ^a  

^a TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; LETTER; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042671245     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(03)00232-0     Document Type: Letter

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