Fatal multiple systemic embolisms after injection of cyanoacrylate in bleeding gastric varices of a patient who was noncirrhotic but with idiopathic portal hypertension

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 345-347

  Saracco, Giorgio ^a   Giordanino, Chiara ^a   Roberto, Navone ^a   Ezio, David ^a   Luca, Todros ^a   Caronna, Stefania ^a   Carucci, Patrizia ^a   De Bernardi Venon, Wilma ^a   Barletti, Claudio ^a   Bruno, Mauro ^a   De Angelis, Claudio ^a   Musso, Alessandro ^a   Repici, Alessandro ^a   Suriani, Renzo ^a   Rizzetto, Mario ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; EMBOLISM; FATALITY; GASTROSCOPY; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH VARICES;

ADULT; CYANOACRYLATES; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INJECTIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE;

EID: 33846537529     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.07.009     Document Type: Article

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