Current status of ectopic varices in Japan: Results of a survey by the Japan Society for Portal Hypertension

Hepatology Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 763-776

  Watanabe, Norihito ^a,b   Toyonaga, Atsushi ^b   Kojima, Seiichiro ^a   Takashimizu, Shinji ^a   Oho, Kazuhiko ^b,c   Kokubu, Shigehiro ^b,d   Nakamura, Kenji ^b,e   Hasumi, Akitake ^b,f   Murashima, Naoya ^b,g   Tajiri, Takashi ^h,i  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yasumoto Hospital   (Japan)

^c Yanagawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Mishuku Hospital   (Japan)

^h NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

ⁱ Chairperson of the Japan Society for Portal Hypertension   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ectopic varices; Endoscopy; Hemodynamic; Interventional radiology; Portal hypertension; Questionnaire survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIARY TRACT VARICES; BLEEDING; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COLON VARIX; DIAPHRAGM VARICES; DUODENAL VARICES; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC COMA; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; JAPAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTAL VARICES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINAL VARICES; STOMACH SURGERY; STOMACH VARICES; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955232911     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2010.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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