"Downhill" Varices-Banding Proximal To Varix?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 359-360

  Dhawan, Saurabh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOITER; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDIASTINUM MASS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STENT; STOMACH VARICES; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VARICEAL BANDING; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN GRAFT; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GOITER, SUBSTERNAL; HUMANS;

EID: 33845503284     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.05.003     Document Type: Letter

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