Is portal hypertensive enteropathy an important additional cause of blood loss in portal hypertensive patients?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1497-1502

  Akyuz, Filiz ^a   Pinarbasi, Binnur ^a   Ermis, Fatih ^a   Uyanikoglu, Ahmet ^a   Demir, Kadir ^a   Ozdil, Sadakat ^a   Besisik, Fatih ^a   Kaymakoglu, Sabahattin ^a   Boztas, Gungor ^a   Mungan, Zeynel ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Capsule endoscopy; Portal hypertension; Small bowel varices

Indexed keywords

ENEMA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; STOMACH ANTRUM VASCULAR ECTASIA; STOMACH EROSION; STOMACH VARICES;

ADULT; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 78649238281     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2010.510568     Document Type: Article

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