Successful Treatment of Severe Spontaneous Periampullary Bleeding with Argon Plasma Coagulation
Periampullary bleeding is an uncommon cause of upper gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage, which is typically iatrogenic in origin occurring as the result of endoscopic intervention of the papilla. Spontaneous, non-iatrogenic periampullary bleeding is extraordinarily rare with only a few cases reported...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2014-07-01
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Series: | Clinical Medicine Insights: Gastroenterology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.4137/CGast.S17667 |