Diagnosis of rectal varices via color doppler ultrasonography

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2253-2258

  Sato, Takahiro ^a   Yamazaki, Katsu ^a   Toyota, Jouji ^a   Karino, Yoshiyasu ^a   Ohmura, Takumi ^a   Akaike, Jun ^a  

^a Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM VARIX; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 34848881019     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01340.x     Document Type: Article

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