A self-expanding metal stent for complicated variceal hemorrhage: experience at a single center

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-78

  Wright, Gavin ^a   Lewis, Heather ^a   Hogan, Brian ^a   Burroughs, Andrew ^a   Patch, David ^a   O'Beirne, James ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73049095698     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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