Management of acute gastric variceal hemorrhage

Mostafa Ibrahim

doi:10.1055/a-1185-1110

Endoscopy, Inhaltsverzeichnis

Endoscopy 2020; 52(07): 528-530
DOI: 10.1055/a-1185-1110

Editorial

Management of acute gastric variceal hemorrhage

Referring to Lo GH et al. p. 548–555

Mostafa Ibrahim

¹Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatopancreatology and Digestive Oncology, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

²Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute Cairo, Egypt

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