Successful Treatment of Mesenteric Varices with Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration via an Abdominal Wall Vein

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1033-1035

  Ono, Satoshi ^a   Irie, Toshiyuki ^a   Kuramochi, Masashi ^a   Kamoshida, Toshiro ^a   Hirai, Shinji ^a   Oka, Yuji ^a  

^a Hitachi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAPTOGLOBIN; MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE; OLDAMINE; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DUODENAL ULCER BLEEDING; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GASTRECTOMY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MELENA; MESENTERIC VARICES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; VARICOSIS;

ABDOMINAL WALL; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MELENA; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS; VEINS;

EID: 34547184996     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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