Clinical and endoscopic features of gastric varices secondary to splenic vein occlusion

Hepatology Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1076-1082

  Sato, Takahiro ^a   Yamazaki, Katsu ^a   Akaike, Jun ^a   Toyota, Jouji ^a   Karino, Yoshiyasu ^a   Ohmura, Takumi ^a  

^a Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color Doppler; Endoscopic ultrasonography; Gastric varices; Splenic vein occlusion

Indexed keywords

CHOLIC ACID; ENBUCRILATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROSCOPY; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; MALE; MELENA; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PANCREAS DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN OCCLUSION; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH VARICES; STOMACH VARICES BLEEDING; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 53349175005     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2008.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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