Low specificity of platelet to spleen ratio for noninvasive prediction and characterization of esophageal varices in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis;Omjer broja trombocita i veličine slezene ima nisku specifičnost u neinvazivnoj predikciji i karakterizaciji varikoziteta jednjaka kod bolesnika s alkoholnom cirozom jetre

Acta Medica Croatica

Volumn 68, Issue 4-5, 2014, Pages 353-360

  Grgurević, Ivica ^a,b   Jukić, Ivana ^b   Sokol, Sanda ^a   Banić, Marko ^a,c   Bilić, Branko ^a   Gunjača, Ivan ^a   Kujundžić, Milan ^a,b   Rora, Mia ^d   Matić, Vlatko ^d  

^a University of Zagreb School of Medicine   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Esophageal varices; Liver cirrhosis; Platelet count; Portal hypertension; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; SPLEEN SIZE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ULTRASOUND; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; THROMBOCYTE;

BLOOD PLATELETS; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN;

EID: 84940978457     PISSN: 13300164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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