Can balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration be performed for gastric varices without gastrorenal shunts?

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 663-670

  Araki, Takuji ^a   Hori, Masaaki ^a   Motosugi, Utaro ^a   Sano, Katsuhiro ^a   Ishigame, Keiichi ^a   Nakajima, Hiroto ^a   Okada, Hiroki ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOETHANOLAMINE OLEATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BALLOON CATHETER; BALLOON OCCLUDED RETROGRADE TRANSVENOUS OBLITERATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTRORENAL SHUNT; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ANGIOGRAPHY; STOMACH VARICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956621832     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: 15357732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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