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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Main Authors: Ikeda, Osamu, Nakasone, Yutaka, Beppu, Toru, Baba, Hideo, Yamashita, Yasuyuki
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: SAGE Publications 2012
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Case Report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738340/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23986831
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1258/arsr.2012.120008
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