Clinical evaluation of combined endoscopic variceal ligation and sclerotherapy of gastric varices in liver cirrhosis

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 940-945

  Arakaki, Y ^a   Murakami, K ^b   Takahashi, K ^b   Sato, R ^b   Okimoto, T ^b   Ishitobi, H ^b   Nasu, M ^b   Kagawa, J ^b   Kodama, M ^b   Fujioka, T ^b  

^a Almeida Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLIDOCANOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; STOMACH VARICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744232982     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-43475     Document Type: Article

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