Early spontaneous slippage of rubber bands with fatal bleeding: A rare complication of endoscopic variceal ligation

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-276

  Mishin, Igor ^a   Dolghii, A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY NICOLAE TESTEMITANU   (Moldova)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFUSION FLUID; RUBBER; THROMBIN;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GASTROSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING;

BANDAGES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUBBER;

EID: 14944349088     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861000     Document Type: Note

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