A new ultrasound-guided esophageal variceal pressure-measuring device

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1267-1273

  Miller, Larry S ^a   Dai, Qing ^a   Thomas, Antonia ^a   Chung, Chan Y ^a   Park, June ^a   Irizarry, Stephanie ^a   Nguyen, Tung ^a   Thangada, Vinod ^a   Miller, Elan S ^a   Kim, Joseph K ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CREAM; DISEASE MODEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; INSTRUMENTATION; MANOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGUS; MANOMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 3843061327     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2004.30177.x     Document Type: Article

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