Successful obliteration of duodenal varices after endoscopic ligation

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1809-1812

  Bosch, Antonio ^a   Marsano, Luis ^a   Varilek, Gary W ^a  

^a Department of Gastroenterology ^*

Author keywords

Duodenal varices; Endoscopic ligation; Hemorrhage; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FOLLOW UP; GASTRECTOMY BILLROTH I; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ULCER; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN LIGATION;

DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MELENA; MIDDLE AGED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0141762582     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025402411557     Document Type: Article

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