Colonic varices treated by balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration in a cirrhotic patient with encephalopathy: a case report

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 880-884

  Anan, Akira ^a   Irie, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a   Sohda, Tetsuro ^a   Iwata, Kaoru ^a   Suzuki, Norihisa ^a   Yoshikane, Makoto ^a   Nakane, Hidetoshi ^a   Hashiba, Tomoko ^a   Yokoyama, Masanori ^a   Higashihara, Hideyuki ^a   Okazaki, Masatoshi ^a   Sakisaka, Shotaro ^a  

^a Department of Radiology ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OLEIC ACIDS; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 33646130401     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2005.11.038     Document Type: Article

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