Endoscopic therapy for bleeding gastric varices: to clot or glue?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 883-886

  Tripathi, D ^a   Hayes, P C ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLIC ACID OCTYL ESTER; ENBUCRILATE; FIBRIN GLUE; THROMBIN; TISSUE ADHESIVE;

BLEEDING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOMACH VARICES;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LIGATION; THROMBIN; TISSUE ADHESIVES;

EID: 54449087484     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.04.040     Document Type: Editorial

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