Long-term Follow-up of Patients with Liver Cirrhosis after Endoscopic Esophageal Varices Ligation Therapy: Comparison with Ethanol Injection Therapy

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 54, 2003, Pages 2013-2016

  Okano, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraki, Katsuya ^a   Inoue, Hidekazu ^a   Kawakita, Tomoyuki ^a   Deguchi, Masatoshi ^a   Sugimoto, Kazushi ^a   Sakai, Takahisa ^a   Ohmori, Shigeru ^a   Murata, Kazumoto ^a   Nakano, Takeshi ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EIS; EVL

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; VEIN LIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLEIC ACIDS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 10744222496     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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