Differences in bleeding behavior after endoscopic band ligation: After retrospective analysis

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petrasch, Florian ^a   Grothaus, Johannes ^a   Mössner, Joachim ^a   Schiefke, Ingolf ^a   Hoffmeister, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOSCOPIC BAND LIGATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; EMERGENCY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS;

EMERGENCIES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77951885511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-10-5     Document Type: Article

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