Management of acute gastric variceal bleeding [2]

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 1173-1174

  Matsumoto, A ^a   Izumiya, T ^b   Takimoto, K ^a   Inokuchi, H ^a  

^a TAKEDA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH VARICES;

ACUTE DISEASE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0347064084     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01779.x     Document Type: Letter

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