Experience with electronic radial endoscopic color Doppler ultrasonography in esophageal variceal patients

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 275-279

  Sato, Takahiro ^a   Yamazaki, Katsu ^a   Toyota, Jouji ^a   Karino, Yoshiyasu ^a   Ohmura, Takumi ^a   Akaike, Jun ^a   Kuwata, Yasuaki ^a   Suga, Toshihiro ^a  

^a Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color Doppler; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Esophagal varices

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ENDOSCOPIC COLOR DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0344441464     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1443-1661.2003.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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