Early Endoscopy Can Shorten the Duration of Hospitalization in Suspected Variceal Hemorrhage
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The role of endoscopy in the management of variceal hemorrhage.
This is one of a series of statements discussing the use of GI endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy prepared this text. In preparing this document, a search of the medical literature was performed by using PubMed. Additional references were obtained from the bibliographies of the identified articles a...
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This is one of a series of statements discussing the use of GI endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy prepared this text. In preparing this document, a search of the medical literature was performed by using PubMed. Additional references were obtained from the bibliographies of the identified articles a...
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عنوان ژورنال: ISRN Emergency Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-5637
DOI: 10.1155/2013/839126