Minimally invasive measurement of esophageal variceal pressure and wall tension (with video)

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-413

  Vegesna, Anil K ^a   Chung, Chan Y ^a   Bajaj, Anurag ^a   Tiwana, Mansoor I ^a   Rishikesh, Ranjitha ^a   Hamid, Imran ^a   Kalra, Amit ^a   Korimilli, Annapurna ^a   Patel, Sapna ^a   Mamoon, Rasheed ^a   Riaz, Jahenzeb ^a   Miller, Larry S ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AERATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MALE; MANOMETRY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TENSILE STRENGTH; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 68949112212     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2008.11.033     Document Type: Article

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