Successful treatment of ruptured duodenal varices with dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy
Duodenal varices are ectopic portosystemic shunts that do not tend to result in gastrointestinal bleeding. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices. We report a 60-year-old man with melena due to ruptured duodenal varices originating at an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Acta Radiologica Open |