Should balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration be the first-line interventional radiologic treatment for bleeding duodenal varices? A case report and review of the literature

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-36

  Tanaka, O ^a   Ohno, K ^b   Ohno, T ^b   Tomioka, H ^b   Shimizu, S ^b   Yamagami, T ^b   Nishimura, T ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Railway Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; Duodenum; Varices

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; MAMMALS; RADIOLOGY;

BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; VARICES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; ETHANOLAMINE; IOPAMIDOL;

AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENUM; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DUODENUM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ETHANOLAMINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; IOPAMIDOL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349150659     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841850701633049     Document Type: Article

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