Osler-Weber-Rendu disease with esophageal varices and hepatic nodular change

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 849-854

  Goto, Takashi ^a   Dohmen, Takahiro ^a   Yoneyama, Kazuo ^a   Monma, Ayako ^a   Ohshima, Shigetoshi ^a   Shibuya, Tomomi ^a   Kataoka, Ei ^a   Segawa, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Wataru ^a   Takeuchi, Satoko ^a   Anezaki, Yumiko ^a   Ishii, Hajime ^a   Yamada, Ikuhiro ^a   Komatsu, Masafumi ^b   Watanabe, Sumio ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Akita City Hosp   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterio portal shunt; Esophageal varices; Hepatic involvement; Osler Weber Rendu disease; SMA SMV shunt

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARGON PLASMA COAGULATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; LIVER NODULE; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; STOMACH DISEASE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TELANGIECTASIA; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN LIGATION;

AGED; EPISTAXIS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 34547884644     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6197     Document Type: Article

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