Gastric fundal varices with an exposed microcoil after the combined BRTO and PTO therapy
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Gastric fundal varices with an exposed microcoil after the combined BRTO and PTO therapy.
hospital with tarry stool as his chief com− plaint. He had been suffering from liver cirrhosis (type C) and had a clinical his− tory of receiving treatment for hepatocel− lular carcinoma. Emergency upper endo− scopic examination revealed gastric fun− dal varices with an erosion, in which a red spot was observed (l" Fig. 1) [1]. There were no other lesions which would result in tarry stool, incl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966370