Effective injection site on endoscopic injection therapy for postsphincterotomy bleeding: Apex or oral?

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1569-1570

  Matsushita, Mitsunobu ^a   Uchida, Kazushige ^a   Okazaki, Kazuichi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EPINEPHRINE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 44949182638     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01880_3.x     Document Type: Letter

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