Bleeding "Downhill" varices: A rare complication of intrathoracic goiter

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 358-360

  Bédard, Eric L R ^a   Deslauriers, Jean ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSTERNAL GOITER; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; THYROID SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA SYNDROME;

EID: 29144443505     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.020     Document Type: Article

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