Effect of argon plasma coagulation in patients with upper gastrointestinal active hemorrhage

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-16

  Komatsu, Hirokazu ^a   Hara, Yuriko ^a   Naito, Yoshitaka ^a   Hosaka, Yoshio ^a   Yamanaka, Shigeru ^a   Masuda, Hideaki ^a   Imamura, Kiyoko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA MUNICIPAL CITIZEN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argon plasma coagulation; Emergency gastroscopy; Gastrointestinal active hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ARGON;

ADULT; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEAT TREATMENT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PURE ETHANOL INJECTION THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

EID: 14644420913     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2005.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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