Therapeutic approach to "downhill" esophageal varices bleeding due to superior vena cava syndrome in Behcet's disease: a case report

BACKGROUND: One of the rare presentations of superior vena cava syndrome is bleeding of "downhill" esophageal varices (DEV) and different approaches have been used to control it. This is a case report whose DEV was eradicated by band ligation for the first time. CASE PRESENTATION: We repor...

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Autores principales: Tavakkoli, Hamid, Asadi, Mehrnaz, Haghighi, Mahshid, Esmaeili, Abbas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17192182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-6-43

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1769384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17192182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-6-43

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