Preoperative evaluation of endoscopic ultrasonography and portography in selecting devascularization surgery for esophagogastric varices

American Surgeon

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 439-444

  Hsieh, Jan Sing ^a   Jan, Chang Ming ^a   Lu, Chien Yu ^a   Chen, Fang Ming ^a   Wang, Jaw Yuan ^a   Huang, Tsung Jen ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVASCULARIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 22344442842     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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