Prognostic usefulness of ultrasonographic signs of portal hypertension in patients with Child-Pugh stage A liver cirrhosis

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3595-3600

  MacÍas Rodríguez, Manuel A ^a   Rendón Unceta, Paloma ^a   Martínez Sierra, M Carmen ^a   Teyssiere Blas, Inocencío ^a   Díaz García, Fernando ^a   Martín Herrera, Leopoldo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0345201784     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(99)00607-3     Document Type: Article

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