Successful treatment of giant rectal varices by modified percutaneous transhepatic obliteration with sclerosant: Report of a case

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 33, 2006, Pages 5408-5411

  Okazaki, Hirotoshi ^a   Higuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Shiba, Masatsugu ^a   Machida, Ai ^a   Kadouchi, Kaori ^a   Tamori, Akihiro ^a   Tominaga, Kazunari ^a   Watanabe, Toshio ^a   Fujiwara, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^a   Arakawa, Tetsou ^a   Nakamura, Shirou ^a   Wada, Tomoko ^a   Yamamori, Kazuki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Modified percutaneous transhepatic obliteration with sclerosant; Rectal varices

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSING AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MELENA; MESENTERIC VEIN; MODIFIED PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC OBLITERATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL VEIN; RECTUM VARICES BLEEDING; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; VARICOSIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33749388940     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i33.5408     Document Type: Article

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