Computerized endoscopic balloon manometry to detect esophageal variceal pressure

Endoscopy

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 415-420

  Kong, D R ^a   Xu, J M ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Fu, Z Q ^b   He, B B ^b   Sun, B ^a   Xie, Y ^b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VENOUS PRESSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 67849111896     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1214602     Document Type: Article

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