Cerebral artery air embolism during endoscopic variceal ligation: Case report

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-125

  Takeuchi, Yoji ^a   Yoshikawa, Masahide ^b   Shirahama, Kentaro ^b   Tsukamoto, Noboru ^b   Shiroi, Akira ^b   Uchida, Yoshihiro ^b   Miyawaki, Syouzo ^b   Yamada, Satoshi ^b   Kikuchi, Eiryo ^b   Fukui, Hiroshi ^b   Ishii, Mochito ^b  

^a Bell Land General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC VARICEAL LIGATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; EMBOLISM, AIR; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOSTASIS, ENDOSCOPIC; HUMANS; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 9144247757     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(03)02358-7     Document Type: Article

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