Unusual complications of argon plasma coagulation

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 929-932

  Prost, Bénédicte ^a   Poncet, Gilles ^a   Scoazec, Jean Yves ^a   Saurin, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERFORATION; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; ANGIODYSPLASIA; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; ILEUM; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH;

EID: 3042711841     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)01268-4     Document Type: Article

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