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Isolated Gastric Varices Refractory to Balloon-occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO) Successfully Treated by Shunt-occluded Endoscopic Injection Sclerotherapy (SO-EIS): A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO) is widely used to treat isolated gastric varices (IGVs) in Japan. However, BRTO is difficult to perform for IGVs with many small collateral veins, and no secondary treatment has been established. We herein report a rare case of IGVs refract...

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Autores principales: Hatanaka, Takeshi, Kakizaki, Satoru, Suzuki, Yuhei, Ueno, Takashi, Shimada, Yasushi, Takizawa, Daichi, Katakai, Kenji, Sato, Ken, Kusano, Motoyasu, Yamada, Masanobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458309
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.56.7761