Correlation of thrombocytopenia with grading of esophageal varices in chronic liver disease patients

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 369-372

  Abbasi, Amanullah ^a   Butt, Nazish ^a   Bhutto, Abdul Rabb ^a   Munir, S M ^a  

^a JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Correlation; Esophageal varices; Grading; Hepatitis C; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH DISEASE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; WILSON DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955791980     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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