The short-term effects of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration, for treating gastric variceal bleeding, on portal hypertensive changes: A CT evaluation

Korean Journal of Radiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 520-530

  Sung, Ki Cho ^a   Sung, Wook Shin ^a   Eun, Young Yoo ^a   Young, Soo Do ^a   Kwang, Bo Park ^a   Sung, Wook Choo ^a   Han, Heon ^b   In, Wook Choo ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abdomen; CT; Hypertension; Interventional procedures; Portal; Stomach; Therapeutic embolization; Varices; Veins

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; IOHEXOL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; EDEMA; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INTESTINES; IOHEXOL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37049006529     PISSN: 12296929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2007.8.6.520     Document Type: Article

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