Screening for esophageal varices
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Screening for Esophageal Varices
This is one of a series of statements discussing the utilization of gastrointestinal endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy prepared this text. A previous guideline related to this topic (Gastrointest Endosc 2002;56:618-20) was published in 2002. Since that time, new information has become available whi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Liver Disease
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2046-2484
DOI: 10.1002/cld.101