Non-invasive predictors of esophageous varices in children and adolescents with chronic liver disease or extrahepatic portal venous obstruction

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 341-346

  De Alcantara, Roberta Vacari ^a   Yamada, Roberto M ^b   De Tommaso, Adriana M A ^a   Bellomo Brandão, Maria Angela ^a   Hessel, Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Cirrhosis; Esophageal varices; Extra hepatic portal venous obstruction; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EXTRAHEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865988785     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.2205     Document Type: Article

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