B-RTO for ectopic variceal bleeding after living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 81, 2008, Pages 241-243

  Kinjo, Nao ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Yamaguchi, Shohei ^a   Yoshida, Daisuke ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Balloon occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration; Ectopic varices; Jejunal varices; Living donor liver transplantation; Multidetector row computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; JEJUNAL VARICEAL BLEEDING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS;

ADULT; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TESTIS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 41549156880     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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