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Endoscopy 2002; 34(8): 661-663
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33238
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-33238
Case Report
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Argon Plasma Coagulation for the Treatment of Colonic Varices
Further Information
Publication History
Submitted 20 September 2001
Accepted after Revision 22 March 2002
Publication Date:
12 August 2002 (online)
Various individually tailored endoscopic treatment modalities have been described for bleeding colorectal varices. We describe a case of a 65-year-old man, in whom argon plasma coagulation successfully eradicated ectopic varices at the ileocolonic anastomosis; bleeding could be stopped.
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