Complications of alcoholic liver cirrhosis: Active assessment by endoscopy and sonography

Hepatology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1864-1865

  Huang, Yi Wen ^a,b   Hu, Jui Ting ^a,c   Yang, Sien Sing ^a,c  

^a CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ASCITES; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER HISTOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VARICEAL HEMORRHAGE;

COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 78049503925     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23799     Document Type: Letter

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