Bleeding duodenal varices successfully treated with balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO) assisted by CT during arterial portography

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1148-1151

  Tsurusaki, Masakatsu ^a   Sugimoto, Koji ^a   Matsumoto, Shinichi ^a   Izaki, Kenta ^a   Fukuda, Tetsuya ^a   Akasaka, Yoshinobu ^a   Fujii, Masahiko ^a   Hirota, Shozo ^b   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; CT; Duodenal varices; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DUODENAL VEIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSIS; VEIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIES; BALLOON OCCLUSION; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 33750518582     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-004-0189-z     Document Type: Article

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