Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varices: the relationship between the clinical outcome and gastrorenal shunt occlusion
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The rupture of gastric varices is associated with high mortality rate. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (B-RTO), a minimally invasive procedure that was introduced in the mid-1990s, has been widely accepted in Jap...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Imaging |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2342/10/2 |