Current Staging and Diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Varices

Clinics in Liver Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-208

  Coelho Prabhu, Nayantara ^a   Kamath, Patrick S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Esophageal varices; Gastric varices; Staging

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAGING; STOMACH VARICES;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 77953001537     PISSN: 10893261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cld.2010.03.006     Document Type: Review

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