Capsule endoscopy: a useful tool in portal hypertensive enteropathy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 152-

  Jimenez Saenz, Manuel ^a   Romero Vazquez, Javier ^a   Caunedo Alvarez, Angel ^a   Herrerias Gutierrez, Juan Manuel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AGED; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; ENTEROPATHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSIVE ENTEROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY;

AGED; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; JEJUNAL DISEASES;

EID: 33745267249     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.02.012     Document Type: Letter

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