Clinical significance and prediction factors of gastric varices in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 53, 2003, Pages 1603-1608

  Yeh, Jun Lin ^c   Peng, Yen Chun ^a,b   Tung, Chun Fang ^a,b   Yang, Dar Yu ^a   Hu, Wei Hsiung ^a   Chow, Wei Keung ^a   Yeh, Hung Zen ^a,b   Chen, Gran Hum ^a,b  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Gastric varices; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Prediction factors

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ASCITES; CANCER PATIENT; CARDIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER SURGERY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOMEGALY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH VARICES; STOMACH WALL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VEIN DILATATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0141763450     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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