Successful management of duodenal varices by balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration

Journal of Nippon Medical School

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-40

  Hotta, Masahiro ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Mamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Taniai, Nobuhiko ^a   Bando, Koichi ^a   Mizuguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Kakinuma, Daisuke ^a   Kanda, Tomohiro ^a   Watanabe, Ken Ichiro ^a   Tajiri, Takashi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; Duodenal varices; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENUM DISEASE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; MALE; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY; VARICOSIS;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUODENUM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 39749122696     PISSN: 13454676     EISSN: 13473409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1272/jnms.75.36     Document Type: Article

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