Endoscopic treatment outcomes in watermelon stomach patients with and without portal hypertension

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 68-72

  Dulai, G S ^a   Jensen, D M ^a   Kovacs, T O G ^a   Gralnek, I M ^a   Jutabha, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; STOMACH SECRETION INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANGIOMA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; STANDARDIZATION; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTRIC ANTRAL VASCULAR ECTASIA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347946732     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-814112     Document Type: Article

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