DIRECT INTERRUPTION PROCEDURES FOR ESOPHAGEAL VARICES
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Sclerosing Therapy of Esophageal Varices
SUMMARY Bleeding of esophageal varices have a high mortality rate, and medical management is usualy unsuccessful. Surgical methods such as vascular ligation or shunting are expensive. High risk procedures with high mortality. Endoscopic sclerotherapy was applied in 104 patients with acute bleeding of esophageal varices during a period of 5 years in a prospettive and retrospective study. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0386-9768,1348-9372
DOI: 10.5833/jjgs.11.8_631