Hemodynamic assessment of the left gastric vein in patients with esophageal varices with color Doppler EUS: Factors affecting development of esophageal varices

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 512-517

  Hino, Shoryoku ^a,b   Kakutani, Hiroshi ^a,b   Ikeda, Keiichi ^a,b   Uchiyama, Yujiro ^a,b   Sumiyama, Kazuki ^a,b   Kuramochi, Akira ^a,b   Kitamura, Yoko ^a,b   Matsuda, Koji ^a,b   Arakawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kawamura, Muneo ^a,b   Masuda, Katsunori ^a,b   Suzuki, Hiroaki ^a,b  

^a Jikei University School of Medicine ^*

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH BLOOD FLOW; VEIN; VEIN PERFORATION; BLOOD FLOW; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; HEPATIC ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 17344394048     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2002.122333     Document Type: Article

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